KJV King James Version
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 STUDY • KJV
Jeremiah 14:3
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
And 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 put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And their honourable ones have sent their little ones to the water, They have come unto ditches, They have not found water, They have turned back—their vessels empty! They have been ashamed, And have blushed and covered their head.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 14
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 there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.
6 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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְאַדִּ֣רֵיהֶ֔םH117 · ad.dirgreatשָׁלְח֥וּH7971 · sha.lachto send: departצְעִירֵיהֶ֖םH6810 · tsa.irlittleלַמָּ֑יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterבָּ֣אוּH935 · boto come (in): comeעַל־H5921 · aluponגֵּבִ֞יםH1356 · gevcisternלֹא־H3808 · lonotמָ֣צְאוּH4672 · ma.tsato findמַ֗יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterשָׁ֤בוּH7725 · shuvto return: returnכְלֵיהֶם֙H3627 · ke.liarticle/utensilרֵיקָ֔םH7387 · re.qamemptilyבֹּ֥שׁוּH954 · bushbe ashamedוְהָכְלְמ֖וּH3637 · ka.lambe humiliatedוְחָפ֥וּH2645 · cha.phahto coverרֹאשָֽׁם׃H7218 · roshhead
Cross-references
2 Samuel 15:30And 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.Jeremiah 2:13For 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.Psalm 40:14Let 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.2 Kings 18:31Hearken 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:Amos 4:8So 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.Jeremiah 2:26-27As 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,Isaiah 45:16-17They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols.Job 6:20They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.Esther 6:12And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.Psalm 109:29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.Jeremiah 14:4Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.Jeremiah 20:11But 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 1:20The 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.1 Kings 17:7And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.1 Kings 18:5-6And 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.2 Samuel 19:4But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
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