Jeremiah 14:4

Modern

The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Traditional

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

Literal

Because the ground is parched, for there was no rain in the land, the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.

Latin

Propter terræ vastitatem, quia non venit pluvia in terram, confusi sunt agricolæ: operuerunt capita sua.

Hebrew

English

The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Both people and animals suffered during the drought.
The farmers covered their heads with rough burlap to show shame, humiliation, and mourning.

This chapter is a conversation between the Lord, Jeremiah, and the people. It began because a severe drought affected the land.

Joel 1:19–20
To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
Joel 1:11
Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
Joel 1:17
The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
Leviticus 26:19–20
I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
Deuteronomy 28:23–24
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.