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That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah regarding the drought:

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

"Judah mourns And her gates languish; Her people sit on the ground in mourning garments, And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

"Their nobles have sent their servants for water; They have come to the cisterns and found no water. They have returned with their containers empty; They have been put to shame and humiliated, And they cover their heads,

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.

Because the ground is cracked, For there has been no rain on the land. The farmers have been put to shame, They have covered their heads.

Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

"For even the doe in the field has given birth only to abandon her young, Because there is no grass.

Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

"The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; They pant for air like jackals, Their eyes fail Because there is no vegetation.

And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.