Jeremiah 14:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

Their nobles

1 Kings 18:5

Pits

Amos 4:8

They were

Isaiah 45:16

Covered

General references

Haggai 1:10

Bible References

Their nobles

Ahab had instructed Obadiah, "Go throughout the land to all of the water springs and to all of the valleys. Maybe we'll find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive. Also, maybe we won't have to kill some of our cattle."

Pits

"Indeed, my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."

But after a while, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Don't listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: "Make peace with me and come out to me! Each of you will eat from his own vine. Each will eat from his own fig tree. And each of you will drink water from his own cistern

The livestock also cries out to you, because their water sources have evaporated and because fire has consumed the open pastures.

So the people of two or three cities staggered away to another city in order to obtain drinking water, but you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.

They were

"As a thief is disgraced when he's caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,

Butthe LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, those who pursue me will stumble and won't prevail. They'll be put to great shame, when they don't succeed. Their everlasting disgrace won't be forgotten.

May those who seek to destroy my life be ashamed and confounded; let them be driven backwards and humiliated, particularly those who wish me evil.

May my accusers be clothed with shame and wrapped in their humiliation as with a robe.

All of them will be put to shame indeed, disgraced! The makers of idols will go off in disgrace together.

Covered

The ground is cracked, because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers are disappointed, and they cover their heads in shame.

David then left, going up the Mount of Olives, crying as he went, with his head covered and his feet bare. All of the people who were with him covered their own heads and climbed up the Mount of Olives, crying as they went along.

Meanwhile, the king veiled his face and kept on crying loudly, "My son Absalom! Absalom my son, my son!"

Then Mordecai returned to the king's gate, while Haman hurried to his house, mourning and hiding his face.

General references

That is why the heavens keep withholding dew from you, and the earth withholds her fruit.