Jeremiah 14:5

Yea, the hind also bringeth forth her young in the field, and forsaketh [them], because there is no grass.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Because of the ground which is cracked open, since there hath been no rain in the land, are the ploughmen ashamed, they cover their head.

6And the wild asses stand on the mountain-tops, they snuff up the wind like serpents: their eyes fail, because there are no herbs.

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Cross References

Job 39:1Knowest thou the time when the chamois of the rock bring forth? or markest thou when the hinds do calve?

Isaiah 15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for dry is the grass, gone are the herbs, and green things are no more.

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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