KJ2000(i)
2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they mourn for the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones for water: they came to the cisterns, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is parched, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
6 And the wild donkeys did stand in the high places, they sniffed at the wind like jackals; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for your name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
8 O the hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turns aside to tarry for a night?