Jeremiah 14:6

Yea, wild asses stand still on the bare heights, They pant for air like jackals,—Dimmed are their eyes Because there is no grass.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

5For, even the hind of the field hath calved and forsaken, Because there is no young herbage;

7Though, our iniquities, have testified against us, O Yahweh, effectually work thou for the sake of thy Name,—For our apostasies have abounded Against thee, have we sinned.

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Cross References

Job 39:5Who hath sent forth the Wild Ass free? And, the bands of the swift-runner, who hath loosed?

Lamentations 4:17Silly shall our eyes fail, for our help that is vain: In our watchtower, have we watched—for a nation that will not save.

Joel 1:18How do the beasts groan! Perplexed are the herds of oxen, because there is no pasture for them,—even, the flocks of sheep, are destroyed!

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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