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.