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Judah will mourn, and her gates languish.
    They will bow in black to the ground
        And Jerusalem’s wail will go up.
Their nobles will send their lads for water.
    They come to the cisterns,
        but find no water.
    Their jars return empty.
    They are ashamed and humiliated;
        they cover their heads.
Because the ground is cracked,
    since there has been no rain in the land,
    the farmers are ashamed—
        they cover their heads.

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