You will also go out from there with your hands on your head. For Adonai has rejected those in whom you trust— you will not prosper by them.”
Jeremiah 14:4 - Tree of Life Version Because the ground is cracked, since there has been no rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed— 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. |
You will also go out from there with your hands on your head. For Adonai has rejected those in whom you trust— you will not prosper by them.”
Therefore showers have been withheld and there has been no spring rain. You have a harlot’s brazen look; you refuse to be ashamed.
Be ashamed, O ploughmen; wail, O vinedressers, over wheat and over barley, for the harvest of the field is lost.
Seed has shriveled under the dirt clod. Storehouses are desolate, granaries are torn 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 go staggering to one city to drink water, but would not be satisfied— yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Adonai.
“All the nations will say, ‘Why has Adonai done this to this land? Why this great burning anger?’