World English Bible
Jeremiah 14:3
“Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 14
1
The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
2
Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
3
Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.
4
Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.
5
Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.
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