Jeremiah 14:4

because of the ground which is cracked. Because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame; they cover their heads.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads,

5Yea, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [it] because there is no grass.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:18And if for these things ye will not yet hearken to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:23And thy sky that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. Yet thou have a harlot's forehead; thou refused to be ashamed.

Joel 1:17The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 14:2-10

Lamentation Caused by a Great Drought; Prayer for Mercy; Pleading with God. ( b. c. 606.) 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 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 Because the ground is chapt, for… Read the whole commentary →

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