First Reading
Jeremiah 14:17-22
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
17And you shall speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is troubled with a great suffering, with an exceeding heavy evil.
18If I go forth into the fields, look the killed with the sword: and if I enter into the city, look them that are destroyed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.
19Have you utterly cast away Juda, or has your soul abhorred Sion? why then have you struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and look trouble.
20We acknowledge, OH Lord, our evil, the sins of our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
21Give us not to be a shame, for your name's sake, and do not disgrace in us the throne of your glory: remember, break not your covenant with us.
22Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not you the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for you have made all these things.