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Their mighty ones have (A)sent their [a]underlings for water;
They have come to the (B)trenches and found no water.
They have returned with their vessels empty;
They have been (C)put to shame and dishonored,
And they (D)cover their heads.

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  1. Jeremiah 14:3 Lit little ones

11 “Behold, days are coming,” declares Lord Yahweh,
“When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather (A)for hearing the words of Yahweh.
12 People will wander from sea to sea
And from the north even to the east;
They will go to and fro to (B)seek the word of Yahweh,
But they will not find it.
13 In that day the beautiful (C)virgins
And the choice men will (D)faint from thirst.

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