Jeremiah 14:4

New American Bible - revised edition

because of the ruined soil; Because there is no rain in the land the farmers are confounded, they cover their heads.

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Be appalled, you farmers! wail, you vinedressers, Over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest in the field is ruined.

Therefore the showers were withheld, the spring rain did not fall. But because you have a prostitute’s brow, you refused to be ashamed.

The seed lies shriveled beneath clods of dirt; the storehouses are emptied. The granaries are broken down, for the grain is dried up.

they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”

From there too you will go out, your hands upon your head; For the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, with them you will have no success.

Two or three cities staggered to another to drink water but were not satisfied; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

If even after this you do not obey me, I will increase the chastisement for your sins sevenfold,