Jeremiah 14:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The leaders of the people send their servants to get water. The servants go to the water storage places, but they don’t find any water. The servants come back with empty jars, so they are ashamed and embarrassed. They cover their heads from shame.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:30

David walked up the path to the Mount of Olives. He was crying, his head was covered, and he went without sandals on his feet. All the people with David also covered their heads and were crying as they walked with him.

Psalm 40:14

People are trying to kill me. Please disappoint them. Humiliate them completely! They wanted to hurt me. Make them run away in shame!

2 Kings 18:31

Don’t listen to Hezekiah! This is what the king of Assyria says: Come out here and show me that you want peace. Then you will all be free to have grapes from your own vines, figs from your own trees, and water from your own well.

Amos 4:8

So the people from two or three cities staggered to another city to get water, but there was not enough water for everyone. Still you didn’t come to me for help.” This is what the Lord said.

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have done two evil things. They turned away from me, and they dug their own water cisterns. I am the source of living water; those cisterns are broken and cannot hold water.

Joel 1:20

Wild animals also need your help. The streams are dry—there is no water! Fire has changed our green fields into a desert.

Jeremiah 20:11

But the Lord is with me. He is like a strong soldier. So those who are chasing me will fall. They will not defeat me. They will fail. They will be disappointed. They will be ashamed, and they will never forget that shame.

Jeremiah 14:4

No one prepares the ground for crops. No rain falls on the land. The farmers are depressed. So they cover their heads from shame.

Psalm 109:29

Humiliate my enemies! Let them wear their shame like a coat.

Job 6:20

They are sure they can find water, but they will be disappointed.

Esther 6:12

After that Mordecai went back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried home with his head covered because he was embarrassed and ashamed.

1 Kings 17:7

There was no rain, so after a while the stream became dry.

2 Samuel 19:4

The king had covered his face and was crying loudly, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Jeremiah 2:37

So you will eventually leave Egypt too, and you will hide your face in shame. You trusted these countries, but the Lord rejected them, so they cannot help you win.

Jeremiah 3:3

You sinned, so the rain has not come. There has not been any springtime rains. But still you refuse to be ashamed. The look on your face is like that of a prostitute who refuses to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 15:18

I don’t understand why I still hurt. I don’t understand why my wound is not cured and cannot be healed. I think you have changed. You are like a spring of water that became dry. You are like a spring whose water has stopped flowing.

Lamentations 4:4

Babies are so thirsty their tongues stick to the roof of their mouths. Young children ask for bread, but no one gives them any.

Hosea 2:3

If she refuses to stop her adultery, I will strip her naked and leave her like the day she was born. I will take away her people, and she will be like an empty, dry desert. I will kill her with thirst.

Zechariah 14:17

And if people from any of the families on earth don’t go to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord All-Powerful, no rain will fall on their land.

Amos 4:7

“I also stopped the rain, and it was three months before harvest time. So no crops grew. Then I let it rain on one city, but not on another city. Rain fell on one part of the country, but on the other part of the country, the land became very dry.