...^languish ; they are ° black unto the ground ; and d the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 And their e ashamed and confounded, f and covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no...

...with their famine ; and are, in the depth of their sorrow, cast upon the ground. XIV. 3. And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters; they came to the pits, and found no water. Their princes and nobles sent the meaner people to bring them water in that extremity of drought, but...

...Wien the prophet Jeremiah described the desolations of Jiulali und Jerusalem hy famine, he said, " Because the ground is chapt, for there wa-s no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook...

...gates thereof languish: they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters :...is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed and confounded, they covered their heads. Yea, the kine also calved in the field,...

...truth being lost sijrht, of, the whole land was made desolate. ' Its nobles sent 'their little ones to the pits, and found no water: they returned ' with...ashamed and confounded, ' and covered their heads.' This pathetic picture of the prophet was realized from Benares to Madras, and the Sunderbunds. It has...

...we will wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things," Jer. xiv. 22. As to the want of it, " Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, and covered their heads. Yea the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it,...

...they are black unto about GDI. the ground ; and the cry of Jerusalem ^""v"-' is gone up. 3 And their ure. The gospel gives us clearer directions on this...Ostervald. aP». HI. 4. his vain life which he spendet 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered...

...indeed, the water of everlasting life had utterly failed amongst you. " The elders," as Jeremiah said, " sent their little ones to the waters; they " came to the pits, and found no water: they re" turned with their vessels empty.' ' " The poor " and needy," as Isaiah said, " sought for water;...

...iii. Od. 15. See also Isaiah li. 17, 22. DRYNESS AND BARRENNESS OF EASTERN COUNTRIES. JER. xiv. 4. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth.] Chardin says, " the lands of the East, which the great dryness there causes to crack, are the ground...

...goats were strewed around the place. I was forcibly reminded of the language of Jeremiah, chap. xiv. " They came to the pits and found no water ; they returned with the vessels empty : they were ashamed and confounded and covered their heads." We stopped for the night...