The Drought (14:1-10): Boda (“From Complaint to Contrition: Peering through the Liturgical Window of Jer 14, 1–15, 4,” ZAW 113 [2001], pp. 186–97) has persuasively argued that the unit 14:1–15:4 reflects a transformation from lament to penitential prayer. He believes that the chapter reflects a public liturgy led by Jeremiah to unsuccessfully avert God’s coming judgment anticipated by a drought. While there are debates whether 14:1–16 and 14:17–15:4 are connected, he rightly points to the allusion to drought, the major subject of the first pericope, in 14:22b, to show that the two sections are united. The two sections have a similar structure since both begin with a statement about a disaster (14:2–6; 14:17–18) and then continue with a communal lament (14:7–9; 14:19–22). After this, each e…