From there also shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
Jeremiah 14:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 shall you go forth, with your hands on your head: for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.
The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
*'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me,* says the LORD.
[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sedom and `Amorah, Admah and Tzevoyim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: