Jeremiah 14:2-4

Contemporary English Version

²Judah and Jerusalem weep
    as the land dries up.
³Rulers 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.

⁴There has been no rain,
and farmers feel sick
as they watch cracks appear
in the dry ground.^[b]

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Footnotes

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.”
14.4 cracks … ground: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.