1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
2 Judah mourneth, and her gates languish; they are black to the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain on the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.