Jeremiah 14:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶The wild asses stand on the bare heights,
they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
because there is no herbage.

⁷“Though our iniquities testify against us,
    act, O Lord, for thy name’s sake;
for our backslidings are many,
    we have sinned against thee.
⁸O thou hope of Israel,
    its savior in time of trouble,
why shouldst thou be like a stranger in the land,
    like a wayfarer who turns aside to tarry for a night?

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