Jeremiah 14:6
Good News Translation
The wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals; their eyesight fails them because they have no food.

New Revised Standard Version
The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.

Contemporary English Version
Wild donkeys go blind from starvation. So they stand on barren hilltops and sniff the air, hoping to smell green grass.

New American Bible
The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, gasping for breath like jackals; Their eyes grow dim; there is no grass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

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And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

the wild.

Jeremiah 2:24 A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.

Job 39:5,6 Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds? . . .

they.

their.

1 Samuel 14:29 And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have seen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey:

Lamentations 4:17 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

Lamentations 5:17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

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.

Context
Drought, Famine, Sword, Pestilence
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.7If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.…
Cross References
Job 39:5
Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds?

Job 39:6
To whom I have given a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the barren land.

Isaiah 32:14
For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks.

Jeremiah 2:24
A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.

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 14:5
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