1. The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
2. Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goeth up.
3. And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads.
4. Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the ploughmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.
5. For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh its young, because there is no grass.