3. Their nobles will send their lads for water. They come to the cisterns, but find no water. Their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
4. Because the ground is cracked, since there has been no rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed— they cover their heads.
5. For even the doe in the field abandons her newborn fawn, because there is no grass.
6. Wild donkeys stand on the barren hills, as they pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, since there is no foliage.
7. Though our iniquities testify against us, Adonai, act for Your Name’s sake. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against You.