Jeremiah 14:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

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Referenced Verses

  • Joel 1:11 : 11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.
  • Joel 1:19-20 : 19 O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame. 20 The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.
  • Deut 28:23-24 : 23 And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
  • Lev 26:19-20 : 19 And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass; 20 And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.
  • Deut 29:23 : 23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:
  • Joel 1:17 : 17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

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  • 3 Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    77%

    5 And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

    6 And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

  • Joel 1:17-18
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    76%

    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

    18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

  • Joel 1:10-12
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    76%

    10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

    11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

    12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

  • 10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

  • 3 So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

  • Job 38:26-27
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    72%

    26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

    27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

  • Gen 2:5-6
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    72%

    5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

    6 But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.

  • 27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

  • 7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

  • 8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

  • 7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

  • 3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

  • Isa 1:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

    30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

  • Mark 4:5-6
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    5 And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep:

    6 And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root, it became dry and dead.

  • 26 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

  • 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

  • 1 Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

  • 4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • 24 Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

  • 3 For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

  • 9 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.

  • 12 Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

  • 4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • 34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

  • 4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

  • 4 The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

  • 20 The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

  • 17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • 7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • 13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

  • 11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • 6 The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.

  • 24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

  • 6 And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.

  • 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

  • Job 24:18-19
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    69%

    18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

    19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • 22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

  • 6 And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water.

  • 4 Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.