Jeremiah 14:7-12

7“Though our wrongdoings testify against us,

Lord, act for the sake of Your name!

Our apostasies have indeed been many,

We have sinned against You.

8“Hope of Israel,

Its Savior in time of distress,

Why are You like a stranger in the land,

Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?

9“Why are You like a confused person,

Like a warrior who cannot save?

Yet You are in our midst, Lord,

And we are called by Your name;

Do not leave us!”

¹⁰This is what the Lord says to this people: “So much they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet. Therefore the Lord does not accept them; now He will remember their wrongdoing and call their sins to account.” ¹¹So the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for a good outcome on behalf of this people. ¹²When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather, I am going to put an end to them by the sword, famine, and plague.”