⁵ Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?

¹ The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

² Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

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.