Jeremiah 14:3

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 2 Sam 15:30 : 30 David went up by the ascent of the [Mount of] Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
  • 2 Kgs 18:31 : 31 Don't listen to Hezekiah.' For thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;
  • Ps 40:14 : 14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  • Amos 4:8 : 8 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets; 27 who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise, and save us.'
  • Jer 14:4 : 4 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.
  • Jer 20:11 : 11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
  • Joel 1:20 : 20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
  • Isa 45:16-17 : 16 They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together. 17 Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
  • Esth 6:12 : 12 Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
  • Job 6:20 : 20 They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
  • 2 Sam 19:4 : 4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!"
  • 1 Kgs 17:7 : 7 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5-6 : 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals." 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

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

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    13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

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    2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

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    13 "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

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    8 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

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    10 Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

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    40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

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    11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

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    24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

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    5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."

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    12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

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    4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

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    26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;

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