Jeremiah 14:3-5

Easy-to-Read Version

³ The leaders of the people send their servants to get water.
    The servants go to the water storage places,
    but they don’t find any water.
The servants come back with empty jars,
    so they are ashamed and embarrassed.
    They cover their heads from shame.
⁴ No one prepares the ground for crops.^[a]
    No rain falls on the land.
The farmers are depressed.
    So they cover their heads from shame.
⁵ Even the mother deer in the field leaves her newborn baby alone,
    because there is no grass.