And their nobles have sent their inferiors to the water, who came to the wells, and found no water: they returned with their vessels empty: they were ashamed and confounded: and [a]covered their heads.

For the ground was destroyed, because there was no rain in the earth: the plowmen were ashamed, and covered their heads.

Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [b]it, because there was no grass.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 14:3 To wit, with ashes in token of sorrow.
  2. Jeremiah 14:5 Meaning, that the brute beasts for drought were compelled to forsake their young, contrary to nature, and to go seek water which they could not find.

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