Jeremiah Chapter 14 verse 6 Holy Bible
And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
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And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.
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And 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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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.
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The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
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And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - The wild asses... in the high places; rather, on the bare heights. "The wild asses," says a traveler cited by Rosenmüller," are especially fond of treeless mountains." Like dragons; render rather, like jackals (as Jeremiah 9:11; 10:22). The allusion is to the way jackals hold their head as they howl. We are told that even the keen eyes of the wild asses fail, because there was [is] no grass; rather, herbage. They grow dim first with seeking it so long in vain, and then from lack of nourishment.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) The wild asses.--From the field the prophet's eye turns to the bare hill-tops of the "high places," and sees a scene of like distress. The "wild asses" seem turned to beasts of prey, and stand gaping for thirst, as the jackals (not "dragons"--comp. Jeremiah 9:11) stand panting for their prey. By some scholars the word is taken as meaning, like a kindred word in Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 32:2, "crocodiles," with their wide gaping jaws.There was no grass.--The word is not the same as that in Jeremiah 14:5, and implies a larger and ranker herbage than that on which the hind fed.
