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  1. Not just any old drought<\/em>. Think biblically. Remember that a drought is never a random natural disaster: \u201cTake care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them. For the LORD\u2019s anger will flare up against you, and He will shut up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce; and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is assigning to you\u201d (Deut. 11:16-17).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Mikveh Israel (\u201cHope of Israel\u201d).<\/em> A Jeremian epithet for God. It will appear again 3 chapters from now. The name expresses the message: You are the source of our hope, and also the source of life-giving water during a drought. It was a hope, that in this chapter and in that historical period, was not fulfilled. Many years after Jeremiah, in 1870, the name Mikveh Yisrael was given to the first agricultural school in the Land of Israel. A different period, and a different sort of hope.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. A list of the powerless.<\/em> In verses 8 and 9 there is a list of people who have various types of powerlessness in society. The people are beseeching God, that He not behave like them. \u201cWhy are You like a stranger in the land, Like a traveler who stops only for the night? Why are You like a man who is stunned, Like a warrior who cannot give victory? Yet You are in our midst, O LORD, And Your name is attached to us\u2014 Do not forsake us!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Fatal optimism<\/em>. The false prophets, who claim to be prophesying in God\u2019s name, proclaim messages of hope and optimism. But it is precisely this optimism that leads to blindness to reality, and to eventual destruction. Jeremiah, as a true prophet, expresses deep empathy with the people who are being misled by his competitors, the false prophets. His conversation with God about this, in verses 13-16, raises the question of who is responsible for this situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. A prayer, by the book<\/em>. In the people\u2019s prayer in this chapter, we can find all the right elements. Regret, repentance, the memory of the covenant, beseeching and \u201cdo it for Your sake.\u201d Why doesn\u2019t it work? Is the prayer not sincere? Is rejecting their prayer God\u2019s strategy to up the repentance ante? 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