Verse 3

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 15:30 : 30 David went up by the ascent of the [Mount of] Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
  • 2 Kgs 18:31 : 31 Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;
  • Ps 40:14 : 14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  • Amos 4:8 : 8 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, And were not satisfied: Yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
  • Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets; 27 who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
  • Jer 14:4 : 4 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.
  • Jer 20:11 : 11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
  • Joel 1:20 : 20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, For the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
  • Isa 45:16-17 : 16 They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols. 17 [But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end.
  • Esth 6:12 : 12 Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
  • Job 6:20 : 20 They were distressed because they were confident; They came there, and were confounded.
  • 2 Sam 19:4 : 4 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, my son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!
  • 1 Kgs 17:7 : 7 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5-6 : 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals. 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.