Their nobles send their servants[a] for water.
They go to the cisterns;
they find no water;
their containers return empty.
They are ashamed and humiliated;
they cover their heads.(A)
The ground is cracked
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;(B)
they cover their heads.
Even the doe in the field
gives birth and abandons her fawn
since there is no grass.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 14:3 Lit little ones

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