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Jeremiah 14:3

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3“Their nobles have asent their 1servants for water;

They have come to the bcisterns and found no water.

They have returned with their vessels empty;

They have been cput to shame and humiliated,

And they dcover their heads.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit little ones

Cross references

  1. a1 Kin 18:5
  2. b2 Kin 18:31; Jer 2:13
  3. cJob 6:20; Ps 40:14
  4. d2 Sam 15:30

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Her nobles send their servants for water;

they come to the cisterns;

they find no water;

they return with their vessels empty;

they are ashamed and confounded

and cover their heads.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The nobles send their servants for water;

they go to the cisterns

but find no water.

They return with their jars unfilled;

dismayed and despairing,

they cover their heads.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Their nobles send their servants for water.

They go to the cisterns;

they find no water;

their containers return empty.

They are ashamed and humiliated;

they cover their heads.

NLTNew Living Translation

The nobles send servants to get water,

but all the wells are dry.

The servants return with empty pitchers,

confused and desperate,

covering their heads in grief.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And their nobles send their servants for water.

They come to the pits, they find no water.

They return with their vessels empty.

They are ashamed, and they are confounded,

and they cover their heads.

KJV 1900King 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.