11th.: Drought in Judah, Part 1
A devastating drought!
Israel was in trouble.
Jeremiah asked God about it,
“Judah mourns, and the gates thereof languish. They are black unto the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters. They came to the pits, and found no water.
They returned with their vessels empty. They were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth. The plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
And the wild donkeys did stand in the high places. They snuffed up the wind like dragons.
Their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us,
do thou it for thy name’s sake. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.
O the hope of Israel, the savior thereof in time of trouble. Why should thou be as a stranger in the land,
and as a wayfaring man that turns aside to tarry for a night. Why should thou be as a man astonied,
as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name.
Leave us not.” (Jer. 14:2-9).
Even though God already knew it, in his prayer, Jeremiah describes the severity of the drought.
Second, he confesses the national sins.
Third he asked for the Lord’s help.
We can only wait to see what the Lord does.
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“For the Lord … will yet choose Israel.” (Isa. 14:1)