Jeremiah 14:6

And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no herbage.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

In Context

5Yea, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [it] because there is no grass.

7Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.

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Cross References

Job 39:5Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey

Lamentations 4:17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Joel 1:18How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 14:2-10

Lamentation Caused by a Great Drought; Prayer for Mercy; Pleading with God. ( b. c. 606.) 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. 2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is chapt, for… Read the whole commentary →

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