Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 15:30 : 30 And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that [was] with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
  • 2 Kgs 18:31 : 31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out to me, and [then] eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
  • Ps 40:14 : 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  • Amos 4:8 : 8 So two [or] three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
  • 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 Saying to a stock, Thou [art] my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned [their] back unto me, and not [their] face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
  • Jer 14:4 : 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
  • Jer 20:11 : 11 But the LORD [is] with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: [their] everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
  • Joel 1:20 : 20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
  • Isa 45:16-17 : 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols. 17 [But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
  • Esth 6:12 : 12 ¶ And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
  • Job 6:20 : 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
  • 2 Sam 19:4 : 4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
  • 1 Kgs 17:7 : 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5-6 : 5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. 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.