Jeremiah 14:4

For the grounde was destroyed, because there was no rayne in the earth: the plowmen were ashamed, and couered their heads.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 nobles haue sent their inferiours to the water, who came to the welles, and founde no water: they returned with their vessels empty: they were ashamed and confounded, and couered their heads.

5Yea, the hinde also calued in the fielde, and forsooke it, because there was no grasse.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:18And if ye wil not for these things obey me, then wil I punish you seuen times more, according to your sinnes,

Deuteronomy 28:23And thine heauen that is ouer thine head, shall be brasse, and the earth that is vnder thee, yron.

Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showres haue beene restrained, and the latter raine came not, and thou haddest a whores forehead: thou wouldest not bee ashamed.

Joel 1:17The seede is rotten vnder their cloddes: the garners are destroyed: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne 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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