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Jeremiah 14:1

The worde of the Lord that came vnto Ieremiah, concerning the dearth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Drought;   Famine;   Impenitence;   Scofield Reference Index - Drought;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Famine;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Cistern;   Economic Life;   Famine and Drought;   Jeremiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jeremiah (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Famine;   Palestine;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD that came to Yirmeyahu concerning the drought.
King James Version
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
English Standard Version
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
New American Standard Bible
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah regarding the drought:
New Century Version
These are the words that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the time when there was no rain:
Amplified Bible
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
World English Bible
The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Legacy Standard Bible
That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in regard to the drought:
Berean Standard Bible
This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Contemporary English Version
When there had been no rain for a long time, the Lord told me to say to the people:
Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai that came to Yirmeyahu concerning the drought:
Darby Translation
The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is the Lord 's message to Jeremiah about the drought:
George Lamsa Translation
THE word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Good News Translation
The Lord said to me concerning the drought,
Lexham English Bible
That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah concerning the matter of the severe drought.
Literal Translation
That which was the Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah concerning the matter of droughts.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The worde of the LORDE shewed vnto Ieremy, cocernynge ye derth off the frutes.
American Standard Version
The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Bible in Basic English
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
King James Version (1611)
The word of the Lord that came to Ieremiah concerning the dearth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The worde of the Lorde shewed vnto Ieremie concernyng the dearth of the fruites.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAS CONCERNING THE DROUGHT.
English Revised Version
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The word of the Lord, that was maad to Jeremye, of the wordis of dryenesse.
Update Bible Version
The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Webster's Bible Translation
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the drought.
New King James Version
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
New Living Translation
This message came to Jeremiah from the Lord , explaining why he was holding back the rain:
New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah when there was no water:
New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So much of the word of Yahweh as came unto Jeremiah, concerning the matter of the drought: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the words of the drought.
Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Young's Literal Translation
That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah concerning the matters of the dearths:
THE MESSAGE
God 's Message that came to Jeremiah regarding the drought: "Judah weeps, her cities mourn. The people fall to the ground, moaning, while sounds of Jerusalem's sobs rise up, up. The rich people sent their servants for water. They went to the cisterns, but the cisterns were dry. They came back with empty buckets, wringing their hands, shaking their heads. All the farm work has stopped. Not a drop of rain has fallen. The farmers don't know what to do. They wring their hands, they shake their heads. Even the doe abandons her fawn in the field because there is no grass— Eyes glazed over, on her last legs, nothing but skin and bones."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah in regard to the drought:

Contextual Overview

1 The worde of the Lord that came vnto Ieremiah, concerning the dearth. 2 Iudah hath mourned, and the gates thereof are desolate, they haue bene brought to heauinesse vnto the grounde, and the cry of Ierusalem goeth vp. 3 And their nobles haue sent their inferiours to the water, who came to the welles, and founde no water: they returned with their vessels empty: they were ashamed and confounded, and couered their heads. 4 For the grounde was destroyed, because there was no rayne in the earth: the plowmen were ashamed, and couered their heads. 5 Yea, the hinde also calued in the fielde, & forsooke it, because there was no grasse. 6 And the wilde asses did stande in the hygh places, & drew in their winde like dragons their eyes did faile, because there was no grasse. 7 O Lorde, though our iniquities testifie against vs, deale with vs according to thy name: for our rebellions are many, we sinned against thee. 8 O the hope of Israel, the sauiour thereof in the time of trouble, why art thou as a strager in ye land, as one that passeth by to tary for a night? 9 Why art thou as a man astonied, and as a strong man that cannot helpe? yet thou, O Lord, art in the middes of vs, and thy Name is called vpon vs: forsake vs not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3399, bc 605

The word: This discourse is supposed to have been delivered after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. The Hebrew batzaroth rendered dearth, signifies restraint, that is, "when the heaven is shut up that there is no rain;" which Houbigant thinks happened early in the reign of Zedekiah.

the dearth: Heb. the words of the dearths, or restraints, Jeremiah 17:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:10 - was a Genesis 41:55 - famished Genesis 47:13 - so that Leviticus 26:19 - make Deuteronomy 11:17 - shut up Deuteronomy 28:23 - General Joshua 15:57 - Timnah Ruth 1:1 - a famine 2 Samuel 21:1 - a famine 2 Samuel 21:14 - God 1 Kings 8:35 - heaven 2 Kings 4:38 - a dearth 2 Chronicles 6:26 - if they pray Haggai 1:10 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 10:22
The sonnes of Shem were Elam and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 11:2
And as they went from the East, they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and there they abode.
Isaiah 11:11
And in the same day shall the Lord stretche out his hand againe the second time, to possesse the remnant of his people, (which shalbe left) of Asshur, and of Egypt, & of Pathros, and of Ethiopia, and of Elam, and of Shinear, and of Hamath, and of the yles of the sea.
Isaiah 21:2
A grieuous vision was shewed vnto me, The transgressour against a transgressour, and the destroyer against a destroyer. Goe vp Elam, besiege Media: I haue caused all the mourning thereof to cease.
Isaiah 22:6
And Elam bare the quiuer in a mans charet wt horsemen, and Kir vncouered the shield.
Isaiah 37:12
Haue the gods of the nations deliuered them, which my fathers haue destroyed? as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were at Telassar?
Jeremiah 25:25
And all the Kings of Zimri, and all the Kings of Elam, and all the Kings of the Medes,
Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam & all his multitude round about his graue: al they are slaine and fallen by the sword which are gone downe with the vncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused themselues to be feared in the land of the liuing, yet haue they borne their shame with them that are gone downe to the pit.
Daniel 1:2
And ye Lord gaue Iehoiakim king of Iudah into his hand; with parte of the vessels of the house of God, which he caryed into the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into his gods treasurie.
Zechariah 5:11
And hee saide vnto mee, To builde it an house in the lande of Shinar, and it shall be established and set there vpon her owne place.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. Or, "concerning the words of straints" x; that is, concerning the businesses of a drought, as the Targum; concerning the Lord's restraining rain from the earth, and forbidding the heavens dropping it down; the consequence of which is a drought, or dryness of the earth; and the effect of that a famine; when this was it is not anywhere said; it could not be the famine at the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, because that only affected the city; this all Judea. Some think it was in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, long before the siege; and others, that it was in the reign of Jehoiakim, since we read of a fast in his time, Jeremiah 36:9, which might be on this occasion; and it appears that there was one at this time, though not acceptable to God; see

Jeremiah 14:12.

x על דברי הבצרות "super verbis, cohibitionum", Junius Tremellius "retentionum"; Tigurine version; "prohibitionum", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The dearth - Really, the drought,

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIV

This chapter begins with foretelling a drought that should

greatly distress the land of Judea, the effects of which are

described in a most pathetic manner, 1-6.

The prophet then, in the people's name, makes a confession of

sins, and supplication for pardon, 7-9.

But God declares his purpose to punish, forbidding Jeremiah to

pray for the people, 10-12.

False prophets are then complained of, and threatened with

destruction, as are also those who attend to them, 13-16.

The prophet, therefore, bewails their misery, 17, 18;

and though he had just now been forbidden to intercede for

them, yet, like a tender pastor, who could not cease to be

concerned for their welfare, he falls on the happy expedient of

introducing themselves as supplicating in their own name that

mercy which he was not allowed to ask in his, 19-22.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIV

Verse Jeremiah 14:1. The word - that came - concerning the dearth. — This discourse is supposed to have been delivered, after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. Concerning the dearth. We have no historic record of any dearth that may fall in with the time of this prophecy, and perhaps it does not refer to any particular dearth: but this was a calamity to which Judea was very liable. They had ordinarily very dry summers, for scarcely any rain fell from April to the middle of October; and during much of this time, the rivers were generally either very low or entirely dry. They kept the rain of the winter in tanks and reservoirs; and if little fell in winter, a dearth was unavoidable. See an account of a dearth in the time of Elijah, 1 Kings 18:5, through which almost all the cattle were lost.


 
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