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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.
Because the ground is cracked,
    since there has been no rain in the land,
    the farmers are ashamed—
        they cover their heads.
For even the doe in the field
    abandons her newborn fawn,
        because there is no grass.

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