Jeremiah 14:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³ Her^[a] nobles send their servants for water;
    they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
    they return with their vessels empty.
They are ashamed and dismayed
    and cover their heads,^(A)
4 because the ground is cracked.
    Because there has been no rain on the land,
the farmers are dismayed;
    they cover their heads.^(B)
5 Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn
    because there is no grass.