4. Because of the ground which is chapt, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.
5. Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass.
6. And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
7. Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O Lord: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
8. O thou hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
9. Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
10. Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore the Lord doth not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
11. And the Lord said unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
12. When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;