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Villagers look into a dry stone cistern with empty jars, while parched terraces rise toward a simple town.
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Jeremiah 14:1-4

Empty cisterns

The Drought and the Prayer for Rain · Jeremiah 14

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1The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.

2Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they grow dark on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

3Their nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns and find no water. They return with their containers empty; they are ashamed and humiliated, and they cover their heads.

4Because the ground is dismayed, since there has been no rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

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