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That which was the Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah concerning the matter of droughts.

Judah mourns, and her gates droop. They put on mourning for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters. They came to the cisterns; they found no water. They returned with their vessels empty. They were ashamed and confounded and covered their head.

Because the ground was cracked, for there was no rain in the land; the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their head.

For even the doe calved in the field and forsook it because there was no grass.

And the wild asses stood in the high places; they snuffed up the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.