NSB(i)
2 Judah mourns and its gates collapse. The people of Judah are filled with bereavement as they sit on the ground. Their cry goes up from Jerusalem.
3 Important people send their assistants out for water. They do not find any water at the cisterns. They return with their containers empty. They cover their heads, because they are ashamed and dishonored.
4 There is no rain in the land and the ground is cracked. The farmers are disappointed. They cover their heads.
5 Even deer in the fields give birth and abandon their young because there is no grass.
6 Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills. They sniff the wind like jackals. Their eyesight fails because they have no green plants.