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Physical and Spiritual Drought

14 The word of Adonai that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts:
Judah will mourn, and her gates languish.
    They will bow in black to the ground
        And Jerusalem’s wail will go up.
Their nobles will send their lads for water.
    They come to the cisterns,
        but find no water.
    Their jars return empty.
    They are ashamed and humiliated;
        they cover their heads.

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