Jeremiah 14:19

The prophet again returns to God, expostulating with him, and humbly imploring mercy for his people, which lets us know that he did not understand God's words to him, Jeremiah 14:11, as an absolute prohibition of him to pray for this people. Zion was a place whose gates God loved, and Judah was his pleasant portion. Lord, saith the prophet, is it possible thou shouldst loathe a place which thou so much lovedst, or cast off a people which thou hast so much owned? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? he acknowledgeth God to be he that had smitten them, and their condition without him to be helpless and hopeless; and that all their hopes and expectations were frustrated.