From there also you will come away with your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper through them.
Jeremiah 14:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 because the ground is cracked. Because there has been no rain on the land, the farmers are dismayed; they cover their heads. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because the ground is cracked and the tillers are dismayed, since there has been no rain on the land, the plowmen are put to shame, and they cover their heads. American Standard Version (1901) Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads. Common English Bible Because the ground is cracked due to lack of rain, the farmers too are ashamed; they cover their heads. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of the devastation of the earth, because rain did not fall upon the earth, the farmers were confounded; they covered their heads. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded: they covered their heads. |
From there also you will come away with your hands on your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper through them.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come, yet you have the forehead of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
Be dismayed, you farmers; wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops of the field are ruined.
The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are ruined because the grain has withered.
And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
so two or three towns wandered to one town to drink water and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger—