not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? 013:022 If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence. 013:023 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. 013:024 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness. 013:025 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. 013:026 Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear. 013:027 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be? 014:001 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 014:002 Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 014:003 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. 014:004 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads. 014:005 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass. 014:006 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage. 014:007 Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. 014:008 You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night? 014:009 Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us. 014:010 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. 014:011 Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for [their] good. 014:012 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. 014:013 Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them,