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Judah and Jerusalem weep
    as the land dries up.
Rulers send their servants
    to the storage pits for water.[a]
But there's none to be found;
they return in despair
    with their jars still empty.

There has been no rain,
    and farmers feel sick
as they watch cracks appear
    in the dry ground.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 14.3 storage pits for water: Since water was scarce, pits were dug into solid rock for collecting and storing rainwater. These pits were called “cisterns.”
  2. 14.4 cracks … ground: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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