Jeremiah 14:5
Good News Translation
In the field the mother deer abandons her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

New Revised Standard Version
Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

Contemporary English Version
A deer gives birth in a field, then abandons her newborn fawn and leaves in search of grass.

New American Bible
Even the doe in the field deserts her young because there is no grass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass.

Job 39:1-4 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn? . . .

Psalm 29:9 The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags: and he will discover the thick woods: and in his temple all shall speak his glory.

Context
Drought, Famine, Sword, Pestilence
4For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandman were confounded, they covered their heads. 5Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass.6And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.…
Cross References
Genesis 49:21
Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.

Isaiah 15:6
For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.

Joel 1:18
Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished.

Jeremiah 14:4
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