⁴¹ Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

⁸ They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.

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.