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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 put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.
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A Crisis for All Classes
Most commentators clarify that "their little ones" likely refers to servants or common people, not children. The nobles, the elite of society, are sending their subordinates on a desperate and futile search for water. This detail highlights a society-wide crisis where the drought has leveled social distinctions, leaving everyone, from the powerful to the poor, helpless.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Little ones – mean ones, the common people. The word is unique to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 48:4).
The pits – that is, ta…
19th Century
Anglican
Their little ones. —Not their children, but their menial servants. The word is peculiar to Jeremiah, and occurs only here and in J…
Baptist
The distress in the land was so great that the city gates, where, in more prosperous times, business transactions took place, and meetings of the p…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet suggests in these words that the scarcity would be so great as to appear to be a manifest and remarkable evidence of God’s vengeance. F…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters , &c.] To places where water used to be; to the pools, th…
The people were in tears. But it was the cry of their trouble and their sin, rather than of their prayer. Let us be thankful for the mercy of water…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, the prophet begins to intercede with his prayer to God on their behalf, so that they might obtain mercy in some way, at least after…
