Jeremiah 14:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.

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Referenced Verses

  • Joel 1:11 : 11 Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.
  • Joel 1:19-20 : 19 To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields. 20 Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.
  • Deut 28:23-24 : 23 The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. 24 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 That is why the rains have been withheld, and the spring rains have not come. Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.
  • Lev 26:19-20 : 19 I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze. 20 Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.
  • Deut 29:23 : 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.
  • Joel 1:17 : 17 The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 14:3
    80%

    3The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.

  • Jer 14:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass.

    6Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”

  • Joel 1:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

    18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

  • Joel 1:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

    11Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

    12The vine has dried up; the fig tree languishes– the pomegranate, date, and apple as well. In fact, all the trees of the field have dried up. Indeed, the joy of the people has dried up!

  • Hag 1:10
    74%

    10This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.

  • Jer 3:3
    73%

    3That is why the rains have been withheld, and the spring rains have not come. Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.

  • Job 38:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,

    27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

  • Gen 2:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

    6Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

  • Isa 37:27
    72%

    27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • Amos 4:7
    71%

    7“I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.

  • Job 24:8
    71%

    8They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

  • Heb 6:7
    71%

    7For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

  • Ps 129:3
    71%

    3The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.

  • Isa 1:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.

    30For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.

  • Mark 4:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

    6When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
    70%

    26Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • Ps 65:10
    70%

    10You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

  • Zech 10:1
    70%

    1The Restoration of the True People Ask the LORD for rain in the season of the late spring rains– the LORD who causes thunderstorms– and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

  • Jer 12:4
    70%

    4How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”

  • Isa 28:24
    70%

    24Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

  • Jer 4:3
    69%

    3Yes, this is what the LORD has said to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:“Break up your unplowed ground, do not cast seeds among thorns.

  • Isa 33:9
    69%

    9The land dries up and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up and decays. Sharon is like the arid rift valley; Bashan and Carmel are parched.

  • Hos 10:12
    69%

    12Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

  • Job 28:4
    69%

    4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • Ps 107:34
    69%

    34and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

  • Isa 24:4
    69%

    4The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and withers; the prominent people of the earth fade away.

  • Prov 20:4
    69%

    4The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.

  • Joel 1:20
    69%

    20Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.

  • Hab 3:17
    69%

    17When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Ps 129:7
    69%

    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • Isa 5:13
    69%

    13Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

  • Job 24:11
    69%

    11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • Isa 15:6
    69%

    6For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.

  • Jer 5:24
    69%

    24They do not say to themselves,“Let us revere the LORD our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”

  • Matt 13:6
    69%

    6But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.

  • Isa 55:10
    69%

    10The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

  • Job 24:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

    19The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

  • Jer 14:22
    69%

    22Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”

  • Luke 8:6
    69%

    6Other seed fell on rock, and when it came up, it withered because it had no moisture.

  • Judg 5:4
    69%

    4O LORD, when you departed from Seir, when you marched from Edom’s plains, the earth shook, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down rain.