Jeremiah 14:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ Because of the ground which is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ Because the ground is cracked due to lack of rain, the farmers too are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ 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

⁴ For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandmen were confounded: they covered their heads.

Jeremiah 14:4 Cross References

Jeremiah 2:37

From it too you will come away with your hands upon your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have a harlot's brow, you refuse to be ashamed.

Joel 1:11

Be confounded, O tillers of the soil, wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 1:17

The seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are ruined because the grain has failed.

Leviticus 26:18

And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, then I will chastise you again sevenfold for your sins,

Amos 4:8

so two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 29:23

the whole land brimstone and salt, and a burnt-out waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath —