Jeremiah 14:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Rulers send their servants to the storage pits for water. But there's none to be found; they return in despair with their jars still empty.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:30

David went on up the slope of the Mount of Olives. He was barefoot and crying, and he covered his head to show his sorrow. Everyone with him was crying, and they covered their heads too.

2 Samuel 19:4

David held his hands over his face and kept on crying loudly, “My son, Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!”

1 Kings 17:7

But after a while, it dried up because there was no rain.

2 Kings 18:31

Stop listening to Hezekiah! Pay attention to my king. Surrender to him. He will let you keep your own vineyards, fig trees, and cisterns

Esther 6:12

Afterwards, Mordecai returned to his duties at the palace gate, and Haman hurried home, hiding his face in shame.

Job 6:20

thought they would find water. But they were disappointed,

Psalm 109:29

You will cover them with shame, just as their bodies are covered with clothes.

Psalm 40:14

Disappoint and confuse all who want me dead; turn away and disgrace all who want to hurt me.

Jeremiah 14:4

There has been no rain, and farmers feel sick as they watch cracks appear in the dry ground.

Jeremiah 15:18

I am badly injured and in constant pain. Are you going to disappoint me, like a stream that goes dry in the heat of summer?

Jeremiah 2:13

You, my people, have sinned in two ways— you have rejected me, the source of life-giving water, and you've tried to collect water in cracked and leaking pits dug in the ground.

Jeremiah 2:37

and you will leave in great sadness. I won't let you find help from those you trust.

Jeremiah 20:11

But you, LORD, are a mighty soldier, standing at my side. Those troublemakers will fall down and fail— terribly embarrassed, for ever ashamed.

Jeremiah 3:3

So I, the LORD, refused to let the spring rains fall. But just like a prostitute, you still have no shame for what you have done.

Lamentations 4:4

Babies are so thirsty that their tongues are stuck to the roof of the mouth. Children go begging for food, but no one gives them any.

Hosea 2:3

or I will strip her naked like the day she was born. I will make her barren like a desert, and she will die of thirst.

Joel 1:20

Wild animals have no water because of you; rivers and streams are dry, and pastures are parched.

Amos 4:7

Three months before harvest, I kept back the rain. Sometimes I would let it fall on one town or field but not on another, and pastures dried up.

Amos 4:8

People from two or three towns would go to a town that still had water, but it wasn't enough. Even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Zechariah 14:17

No rain will fall on the land of anyone in any country who refuses to go to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD All-Powerful.