Jeremiah 14:3 - Exposition

Their nobles —i.e. the upper classes of Judah and Jerusalem— have sent their little ones ; rather, their mean ones ; i.e. their servants, or perhaps (as Naegelsbach and Payne Smith) simply, "the common people;" it was not a matter concerning the rich alone. To the pits ; i.e. to the cisterns. Covered their heads ; a sign of the deepest mourning ( 2 Samuel 15:30 ; 2 Samuel 19:4 ; Esther 6:12 ).