³ Their nobles have sent their lads for water;
They went to the cisterns and found no water.
They returned with their vessels empty;
They were ^(A)ashamed and confounded
^(B)And covered their heads.

^14 (A)Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who seek to destroy my ^[a]life;
Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor
Who wish me evil.

⁸ So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

¹³ “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the ^(A)fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.

²⁰ The beasts of the field also ^(A)cry out to You,
For ^(B)the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the ^[a]open pastures.

⁴ Because the ground is parched,
For there was ^(A)no rain in the land,
The plowmen were ashamed;
They covered their heads.