Jeremiah 14:1-6

American Standard Version

14 The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

² Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. ³ And their nobles send their ^[a]little ones ^[b]to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads. ⁴ Because of the ground which is ^[c]cracked, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads. ⁵ Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass. ⁶ And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like ^[d]jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.