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.
6. And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
7. Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou act for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many--we have sinned against thee.
8. Thou hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveller that turneth aside to stay a night?
9. Why wilt thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name: leave us not.