^{1 Ref} The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

^{2 Ref} Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

^{3 Ref} 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.

^{4 Ref} Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

^{5 Ref} Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

^{6 Ref} 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.

^{7 Ref} O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

^{8 Ref} O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

^{9 Ref} Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.