1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they mourn for the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones for water: they came to the cisterns, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is parched, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.