Jeremiah 14:4
Jeremiah chapter 14 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Because 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Because 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.
Context
v.3And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.
v.4This passage
v.5Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joel 1:19
O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
- Joel 1:11
Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.
- Deuteronomy 29:23
and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
- Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;
- Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- Deuteronomy 28:23
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.