We return to the Book of Jeremiah for an insight into the suffering caused by a lack of water. The rains have failed, and the enemy is on the way to take the city.
How many people today are confounded and afflicted, unable to provide for their children?
The Word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the words of the drought: Judea hath mourned, and the gates thereof are fallen, and are become obscure on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads. For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded, they covered their heads.
Yea, the deer also brought forth her young in the field, and left it, because there was no grass. And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.
If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name’s sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.
Jeremiah 14:1-7.
If today there are difficulties with the weather in Europe, and climate problems elsewhere that dwarf the floods and storms we endure, we know that a major cause is human activity, much of which could be done more simply, more cleanly, or not done at all. We are destroying our home planet. We ignore or vilify our brothers and sisters who flee their homes to find somewhere to live without hunger or fear.
We have sinned against you, O God; our iniquities ought to be before our eyes but we prefer to turn away. Teach us to reflect, repent and renew our relationship with the planet you have given us to be our home and our children’s inheritance. Do it for your name’s sake, Amen.
The Roman gate at Lincoln.
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