"Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads." — Jeremiah 14:4

Jeremiah 14:4 · KJV

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

— Jeremiah 14:4

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.

Verse 5

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

Jeremiah 14 — Context

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

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

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

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.

Cross References

Joel 1:11

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

Joel 1:19-20

O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. {pastures: or, habitations}

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Deuteronomy 29:23

{And that} the whole land thereof {is} brimstone, and salt, {and} burning, {that} it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Leviticus 26:19-20

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Joel 1:17

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. {seed: Heb. grains}

Deuteronomy 28:23-24

And thy heaven that {is} over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee {shall be} iron.