Jeremiah 14:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ The nobles send their servants for water,
    but when they come to the cisterns
they find no water,
    and they return with their jars empty.
Ashamed and in despair
    they cover their heads.^[a]
4 Because the ground is cracked
    due to a total lack of rainfall,
the farmers are desperate,
    and they too cover their heads.
⁵ Even the doe in the open country
    abandons her newborn fawn
    because there is no grass.