^{1 Ref} The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

^{2 Ref} Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

^{3 Ref} Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

^{4 Ref} Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.

^{5 Ref} Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.

^{6 Ref} The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

^{7 Ref} Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

^{8 Ref} You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

^{9 Ref} Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.