Focused Passage
Drought, False Peace, and the Plea of a Guilty People
The chapter moves from drought lament over Judah's land, people, nobles, farmers, and animals, to Jeremiah's intercessory confession, to the LORD's rejection of the people's wandering love, to the command not to pray for their welfare, to the exposure and judgment of false prophets, and finally to Jeremiah's sorrowful plea that the LORD would remember his covenant and not utterly forsake his people.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
7 Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
9 Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
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