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The Land Dries Up

14 When there had been no rain for a long time, the Lord told me to say to the people:

Judah and Jerusalem weep
    as the land dries up.
Rulers send their servants
    to the storage pits for water.[a]
But there's none to be found;
they return in despair
    with their jars still empty.

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Footnotes

  1. 14.3 storage pits for water: Since water was scarce, pits were dug into solid rock for collecting and storing rainwater. These pits were called “cisterns.”

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