Her nobles send their servants for water;
    they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
    they return with their vessels empty;
they are (A)ashamed and confounded
    and (B)cover their heads.
Because of the ground that is dismayed,
    since there is (C)no rain on the land,
the farmers are ashamed;
    they cover their heads.
Even (D)the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn
    because there is no grass.

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