1. The word of Adonai that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts:
2. Judah will mourn, and her gates languish. They will bow in black to the ground And Jerusalem’s wail will go up.
3. Their nobles will send their lads for water. They come to the cisterns, but find no water. Their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
4. Because the ground is cracked, since there has been no rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed— they cover their heads.
5. For even the doe in the field abandons her newborn fawn, because there is no grass.
6. Wild donkeys stand on the barren hills, as they pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, since there is no foliage.
7. Though our iniquities testify against us, Adonai, act for Your Name’s sake. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against You.
8. O hope of Israel, Savior in time of trouble, why are You like a stranger in the land, or like a traveler who stays for a night?
9. Why are You like a man overcome, like a champion who cannot save? Yet you, Adonai, are in our midst, and we are called by Your Name. Do not forsake us!