Jeremiah 14:1-6

Christian Standard Bible

² Judah mourns;
her city gates languish.^(B)
Her people are on the ground in mourning;
Jerusalem’s cry rises up.^(C)
3 Their nobles send their servants^[a] for water.
They go to the cisterns;
they find no water;
their containers return empty.
They are ashamed and humiliated;
they cover their heads.^(D)
4 The ground is cracked
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;^(E)
they cover their heads.
⁵ Even the doe in the field
gives birth and abandons her fawn
since there is no grass.
⁶ Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights^(F)
panting for air like jackals.
Their eyes fail
because there are no green plants.