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Drought, Famine, and Sword

14 The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

Judah mourns,
    and the gates languish;
they sit on the ground while mourning,
    and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
Their nobles have sent their servants for water;
    they came to the cisterns and found no water.
They returned with their vessels empty;
    they were ashamed and humiliated,
    and covered their heads.

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