Bible Strands
Jeremiah 14:4
The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah records this during a severe drought, describing the immediate agricultural collapse and public shame following the nobles' empty water searches in the preceding verse.
The words — The text emphasizes אֲדָמָה (ha'adamah, the ground) and גֶּשֶׁם (geshem, rain) to contrast the parched earth with the complete absence of the life-giving showers.
The thread — This drought imagery runs through Joel 1:11 and Joel 1:19, where farmers lament ruined harvests and scorched pastures, while Jeremiah 3:3 similarly notes the withheld showers.
Why it lands — The passage demands recognition of tangible ruin, leaving the farmers and nobles exposed in shame without water, cover, or agricultural relief.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
Cross-references
- Joel 1:11 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
- Joel 1:19 To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
- 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.
- Leviticus 26:19 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.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.