Jeremiah 14:5

For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh [its young], because there is no grass.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

In Context

4Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the ploughmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.

6And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

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Cross References

Job 39:1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?

Isaiah 15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the herbage is withered away, the grass hath failed, there is no green thing.

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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