Jeremiah 14:3
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The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
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But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,
People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief.
Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.