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

And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; peradventure we may find herbage to save the horses and mules alive that we not lose all the beasts.

Pits

For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters to hew them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

And it came to pass after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus saith the king of Assyria, Give me a blessing and come out to me, and then each one of you shall eat of their own vine and of their own fig tree, and each one shall drink the waters of their own well,

The beasts of the field also cry unto thee for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire has devoured the meadows of the wilderness.

So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied, yet ye have not returned unto me, said the LORD.

They were

As the thief is ashamed when he is taken, so shall the house of Israel be ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

But the LORD is with me as a powerful giant; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper; they shall have everlasting confusion which shall never be forgotten.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my life to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Let those who speak evil against me falsely be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle.

They shall be ashamed and also confounded, all of them; all the makers of idols shall go forth ashamed.

Covered

Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

And David went up by the ascent of Mount Olivet and wept as he went up and had his head covered, and he went barefoot. And all the people that were with him covered each one his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

After that Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hastened to his house mourning and having his head covered.

General references

Therefore the rain of the heavens over you is held back, and the earth has held back her fruits.