Jeremiah 14:1-6 ▼

1 The word of YHWH that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts:

2 “Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they mourn for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

3 And their nobles have sent their young for water; they went to the cisterns, they did not find water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and humiliated, and they covered their heads.

4 Because the ground is parched, for there was no rain in the land, the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.

5 Indeed, even the doe in the field has brought forth—to forsake it because there is no grass.

6 And the wild donkeys stand on the barren heights; they pant for the wind like jackals, and their eyes fail because there is no grass.”