A moment in scripture
Jeremiah 14:3
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- Jeremiah 14:1
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
- Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- Jeremiah 14:4
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
- Jeremiah 14:5
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.