³ Their nobles send their servants^[a] for water.
They go to the cisterns;
they find no water;
their containers return empty.
They are ashamed and humiliated;
they cover their heads.^(A)

¹¹ Be ashamed, you farmers,^(A)
wail, you vinedressers,^[a]
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.^(B)

⁸ Two or three cities staggered
to another city to drink water^(A)
but were not satisfied,^(B)
yet you did not return^(C) to me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.