1. The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
2. Judah mourneth, and her gates languish; they are black to the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
3. And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain on the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.