Isaiæ 14:3

Nova Vulgata

Maiores eorum miserunt minores suos ad aquam: venerunt ad cisternas, non invenerunt aquam; reportaverunt vasa sua vacua, confusi sunt et afflicti et operuerunt capita sua.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et erit in die illa : cum requiem dederit tibi Deus a labore tuo, et a concussione tua, et a servitute dura qua ante servisti,

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Majores miserunt minores suos ad aquam:
venerunt ad hauriendum.
Non invenerunt aquam:
reportaverunt vasa sua vacua.
Confusi sunt, et afflicti,
et operuerunt capita sua.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

their nobles: 1 Kings 18:5, 1 Kings 18:6

pits: Jeremiah 2:13, 1 Kings 17:7, 2 Kings 18:31, Joel 1:20, Amos 4:8

they were: Jeremiah 2:26, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 20:11, Psalms 40:14, Psalms 109:29, Isaiah 45:16, Isaiah 45:17

covered: Jeremiah 14:4, 2 Samuel 15:30, 2 Samuel 19:4, Esther 6:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:15 - the water Exodus 24:11 - nobles Job 6:20 - confounded Psalms 107:33 - watersprings Isaiah 5:13 - multitude Isaiah 22:17 - cover Jeremiah 15:18 - and as Jeremiah 48:12 - empty Jeremiah 51:51 - shame Joel 1:11 - ashamed 2 Peter 2:17 - are wells

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters,.... To places where water used to be; to the pools, the upper and the lower, particularly to the fountain of Shiloah, which, Jerom says, was the only one the city of Jerusalem used. The meaning either is, that the nobles in Jerusalem sent their own children to get water for them, they having no servants to attend them, these being put away because they could not support them, the famine being so sore; or rather that they sent their menial servants, their subjects, as the Targum renders it, to fetch them a little water to refresh themselves with:

they came to the pits and found no water; their servants came according to order to the pools and cisterns, or to the deep wells, and to such places where there used to be a great confluence of water, and plenty of it, but now they could find none:

they returned with their vessels empty; just as they came:

they were ashamed and confounded; either the servants that were sent, or rather their masters that sent them, when they saw them come with their empty vessels; having been looking out and longing for their return, expecting they would have brought water with them for their refreshment; but to their great disappointment and confusion brought none:

and covered their heads; as persons ashamed, or as mourners used to do, being full of anguish and distress because of the drought.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Little ones - mean ones, the common people. The word is unique to Jeremiah Jeremiah 48:4.

The pits - i. e., tanks for holding water.

Covered their heads - The sign of grief.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 14:3. Their nobles have sent their little ones — So general was this calamity, that the servants no longer attended to their lords, but every one was interested alone for himself; and the nobles of the land were obliged to employ their own children to scour the land, to see if any water could be found in the tanks or the pits. In the dearth in the time of Elijah, Ahab the king, and Obadiah his counsellor, were obliged to traverse the land themselves, in order to find out water to keep their cattle alive. This and the three following verses give a lively but distressing picture of this dearth and its effects.