The Distress of the Drought

14 The message which came from Jehovah to Jeremiah

with regard to the drought.

2 Judah doth mourn, and the gates thereof languish;

(Her people) are sitting in black on the ground,

And a cry rises up from Jerusalem.

3 Her nobles have sent their attendants for water;

They come to the cisterns, no water they find:

Back then they go with their pitches empty,

In shame and confusion they cover their heads.

4 Dismayed are the men that till the ground,

Because on the land no rain hath fallen;

The ploughmen cover their heads in confusion.

5 Yea, even the hind in the field forsaketh

The young that she bore, because grass there is none.

6 And the wild asses stand on the bleak bare heights,

Panting for air, like the crocodile,

And the light dieth out of their eyes,

Because herbage there is none.