¹³ And the evening and the morning were the third day.

¹⁴ He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

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.