“Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
So does Sheol those who have sinned.

Like heat in drought, You subdue the uproar of aliens;
Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.

“They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord
Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and of pits,
Through a land of drought and of deep darkness,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no man dwelt?’

That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah in regard to the drought:

“For he will be like a tree planted by the water,
That extends its roots by a stream
And will not fear when the heat comes;
But its leaves will be green,
And it will not be anxious in a year of drought
Nor cease to yield fruit.

“A drought on her waters, and they will be dried up!
For it is a land of idols,
And they are mad over fearsome idols.

I cared for you in the wilderness,
In the land of drought.

I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.”

For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.