Jeremiah 14:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵ In the field the mother deer
    abandons her newborn fawn
    because there is no grass.
⁶ The wild donkeys stand on the hilltops
    and pant for breath like jackals;
their eyesight fails them
    because they have no food.
⁷ My people cry out to me,
    ‘Even though our sins accuse us,
    help us, Lord, as you have promised.
We have turned away from you many times;
    we have sinned against you.