Jeremiah 14:5

And hinds calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4And the labors of the land failed, because there was no rain: the husbandmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

6The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

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Cross References

Job 39:1Say if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, 1 And if thou hast marked the calving of the hinds: 1

Isaiah 15:6The water of Nimrim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.

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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