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They strain their eyes looking for grass, but there is none to be found.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jeremiah/14.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/14.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/14.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because <i>there was</i> no grass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/14.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And the wild donkeys stood in the desolate heights; They sniffed at the wind like jackals; Their eyes failed because <i>there was</i> no grass.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/14.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; They pant for air like jackals, Their eyes fail Because there is no vegetation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/14.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; They pant for air like jackals, Their eyes fail For there is no vegetation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/14.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; They pant for air like jackals, Their eyes fail For there is no vegetation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/14.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; They pant for air like jackals; Their eyes fail For there is no vegetation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/14.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“And the wild donkeys stand on the barren heights; They pant for air like jackals, Their eyesight fails Because there is no grass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/14.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights panting for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there are no green plants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/14.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights panting for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there are no green plants. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/14.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/14.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Wild donkeys go blind from starvation. So they stand on barren hilltops and sniff the air, hoping to smell green grass. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/14.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/14.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills. They sniff the air like jackals. Their eyesight fails because they have no green plants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/14.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals; their eyesight fails them because they have no food. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/14.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Wild donkeys stand on the barren hills. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyesight fails because there is no vegetation."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/14.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/14.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/14.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/14.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the wild asses stood in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/14.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/14.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And wild donkeys have stood on high places, "" They have swallowed up wind like dragons, "" Their eyes have been consumed, for there is no herb.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/14.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/14.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And the wild asses stood upon the naked hills, they panted after the wind as the jackals; their eyes failed because no grass.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/14.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/14.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And the wild donkeys stood upon the rocks; like dragons, they drew in the wind, but their eyes failed. For there was no grass.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/14.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, gasping for breath like jackals; Their eyes grow dim; there is no grass. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/14.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/14.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And the wild asses stood in the paths, they snuffed up the wind like jackals; their eyes did fail because there was no grass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/14.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And wild donkeys stood up on the trails. They snuffed up the wind like jackals. Their eyes grew dark because there is no grass<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/14.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And the wild asses stand on the high hills, They gasp for air like jackals; Their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/14.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=4194" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/14.htm">Drought, Famine, Sword, Pestilence</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6501.htm" title="6501: ū·p̄ə·rā·’îm (Conj-w:: N-mp) -- A wild donkey. Or pereh; from para' in the secondary sense of running wild; the onager.">Wild donkeys</a> <a href="/hebrew/5975.htm" title="5975: ‘ā·mə·ḏū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To take one's stand, stand. A primitive root; to stand, in various relations.">stand</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/8205.htm" title="8205: šə·p̄ā·yim (N-mp) -- Bareness, a smooth or bare height. From shaphah; bareness; concretely, a bare hill or plain.">barren heights;</a> <a href="/hebrew/7602.htm" title="7602: šā·’ă·p̄ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to inhale eagerly; figuratively, to cover; by implication, to be angry; also to hasten.">they pant</a> <a href="/hebrew/7307.htm" title="7307: rū·aḥ (N-cs) -- Breath, wind, spirit. From ruwach; wind; by resemblance breath.">for air</a> <a href="/hebrew/8577.htm" title="8577: kat·tan·nîm (Prep-k, Art:: N-cp) -- Serpent, dragon, sea monster. Or tanniym; intensive from the same as tan; a marine or land monster, i.e. Sea-serpent or jackal.">like jackals;</a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: ‘ê·nê·hem (N-cdc:: 3mp) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain.">their eyes</a> <a href="/hebrew/3615.htm" title="3615: kā·lū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent. A primitive root; to end, whether intransitive or transitived.">fail</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: ’ên (Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">lack</a> <a href="/hebrew/6212.htm" title="6212: ‘ê·śeḇ (N-ms) -- Herb, herbage. From an unused root meaning to glisten; grass.">of pasture.”</a> </span><span class="reftext">7</span>Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/1-18.htm">Joel 1:18-20</a></span><br />How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering. / To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field. / Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/41-17.htm">Isaiah 41:17-18</a></span><br />The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. / I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/104-21.htm">Psalm 104:21</a></span><br />The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/38-39.htm">Job 38:39-41</a></span><br />Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions / when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket? / Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/8-11.htm">Amos 8:11-13</a></span><br />Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. / People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it. / In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/4-3.htm">Hosea 4:3</a></span><br />Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6</a></span><br />The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm">Isaiah 42:14</a></span><br />“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/42-1.htm">Psalm 42:1-2</a></span><br />For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. / My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/4-4.htm">Lamentations 4:4</a></span><br />The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-22.htm">Romans 8:22</a></span><br />We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-6.htm">Matthew 5:6</a></span><br />Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/7-16.htm">Revelation 7:16</a></span><br />‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/15-14.htm">Luke 15:14-16</a></span><br />After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need. / So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. / He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/4-13.htm">John 4:13-14</a></span><br />Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. / But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">the wild.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/2-24.htm">Jeremiah 2:24</a></b></br> A wild ass used to the wilderness, <i>that</i> snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/39-5.htm">Job 39:5,6</a></b></br> Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? … </p><p class="hdg">they.</p><p class="hdg">their.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/14-29.htm">1 Samuel 14:29</a></b></br> Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/4-17.htm">Lamentations 4:17</a></b></br> As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation <i>that</i> could not save <i>us</i>.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/5-17.htm">Lamentations 5:17</a></b></br> For this our heart is faint; for these <i>things</i> our eyes are dim.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/7-33.htm">Air</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Asses</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-26.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-12.htm">Barren</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-20.htm">Donkeys</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-22.htm">Dragons</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-20.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/psalms/18-24.htm">Eyesight</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-9.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-17.htm">Failed</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-12.htm">Fails</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-5.htm">Field</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm">Gasp</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-5.htm">Grass</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-12.htm">Heights</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-15.htm">Herbage</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-12.htm">High</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Hills</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-29.htm">Hilltops</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-12.htm">Hollow</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-22.htm">Jackals</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-32.htm">Lack</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-2.htm">Mouths</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-19.htm">Open</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-19.htm">Opening</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm">Pant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-17.htm">Places</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-3.htm">Snuff</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-20.htm">Snuffed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-10.htm">Stand</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-10.htm">Stood</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-4.htm">Vegetation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-21.htm">Wide</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-9.htm">Wild</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-24.htm">Wind</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/15-3.htm">Air</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-20.htm">Asses</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-3.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/joel/2-20.htm">Barren</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-20.htm">Donkeys</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-33.htm">Dragons</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-17.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/matthew/6-22.htm">Eyesight</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-18.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Failed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-18.htm">Fails</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-18.htm">Field</a> <a href="/job/3-11.htm">Gasp</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-11.htm">Grass</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-20.htm">Heights</a> <a href="/matthew/6-30.htm">Herbage</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-6.htm">High</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-2.htm">Hills</a> <a href="/judges/9-25.htm">Hilltops</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-21.htm">Hollow</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-33.htm">Jackals</a> <a href="/jeremiah/33-17.htm">Lack</a> <a href="/jeremiah/44-25.htm">Mouths</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-18.htm">Open</a> <a href="/jeremiah/26-10.htm">Opening</a> <a href="/joel/1-20.htm">Pant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-7.htm">Places</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-7.htm">Snuff</a> <a href="/malachi/1-13.htm">Snuffed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-1.htm">Stand</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-1.htm">Stood</a> <a href="/amos/7-2.htm">Vegetation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-14.htm">Wide</a> <a href="/jeremiah/27-6.htm">Wild</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-7.htm">Wind</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 14</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/14-1.htm">The grievous famine,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/14-7.htm">causes Jeremiah to pray.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/14-10.htm">The Lord will not be entreated for the people.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/14-13.htm">false prophets are no excuse for them.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/14-17.htm">Jeremiah is moved to complain for them.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Their presence on barren heights symbolizes desolation and the severity of the drought affecting the land. The barren heights refer to elevated areas that are typically dry and devoid of vegetation, emphasizing the severity of the conditions. This imagery is used to illustrate the dire situation in Judah during a time of divine judgment. The wild donkey is also mentioned in other scriptures, such as <a href="/job/39-5.htm">Job 39:5-8</a>, where it is depicted as a creature that roams freely in the wilderness, highlighting its independence and the harshness of its habitat.<p><b>they pant for air like jackals;</b><br>The comparison to jackals, which are scavengers often found in desolate areas, underscores the desperation and struggle for survival. Panting for air suggests extreme thirst and exhaustion, a vivid portrayal of the effects of the drought. Jackals are often associated with desolation and ruin in the Bible, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/34-13.htm">Isaiah 34:13</a> and <a href="/jeremiah/9-11.htm">Jeremiah 9:11</a>, where they inhabit places of destruction. This imagery serves to reinforce the theme of judgment and the consequences of the people's unfaithfulness to God.<p><b>their eyes fail for lack of pasture.</b><br>The failing eyes of the wild donkeys indicate a lack of sustenance and the inability to find nourishment. In a broader sense, this reflects the spiritual condition of the people of Judah, who are suffering due to their disobedience and turning away from God. The lack of pasture signifies not only physical deprivation but also spiritual barrenness. In <a href="/psalms/23.htm">Psalm 23:1-2</a>, the Lord is depicted as a shepherd who provides green pastures, symbolizing spiritual nourishment and care. The contrast here highlights the absence of divine provision due to the people's sin.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, known for his messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah. He is the author of the Book of Jeremiah.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, which was facing severe drought and impending judgment due to their disobedience to God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/w/wild_donkeys.htm">Wild Donkeys</a></b><br>Symbolic of the desolation and desperation in the land. In the context of Jeremiah, they represent the natural world suffering due to the sins of the people.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/b/barren_heights.htm">Barren Heights</a></b><br>High places that are dry and desolate, often used in the Bible to symbolize spiritual barrenness and judgment.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/d/drought.htm">Drought</a></b><br>A significant event in the Book of Jeremiah, representing both physical and spiritual deprivation due to the people's unfaithfulness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_desolation.htm">Spiritual Desolation</a></b><br>Just as the wild donkeys suffer from lack of water, our souls suffer when we are spiritually dry. We must seek God to quench our spiritual thirst.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_disobedience.htm">Consequences of Disobedience</a></b><br>The drought in Judah serves as a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God. We must remain faithful to His commandments to avoid spiritual and physical desolation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_provision.htm">God's Provision</a></b><br>Despite the desolation, God is always ready to provide for those who turn back to Him. We should trust in His provision and seek His guidance in times of need.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/i/intercession_for_others.htm">Intercession for Others</a></b><br>Jeremiah's role as a prophet included interceding for the people. We are called to pray for others, especially when they are experiencing spiritual drought.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/a/awareness_of_spiritual_needs.htm">Awareness of Spiritual Needs</a></b><br>Just as the wild donkeys are aware of their need for water, we must be aware of our spiritual needs and actively seek God to fulfill them.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_14.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 14</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_drought_in_jeremiah_14_1-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:1-6: Does any historical or archeological evidence confirm or challenge the account of a severe drought at that time?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_there_historical_proof_of_false_prophets.htm">Jeremiah 6:14 says false prophets treat serious sins lightly; is there any external historical evidence verifying these supposed prophets or their teachings?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_forbid_intercession_here.htm">Jeremiah 14:11-12: Why would God forbid prayers of intercession, when other biblical passages encourage praying for others?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_do_some_bad_leaders_go_unpunished.htm">Jeremiah 23:1-2: How can God condemn 'shepherds' who mislead the flock while, historically, many oppressive leaders seem to go unpunished?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/14.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6) <span class= "bld">The wild asses.</span>--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 <span class= "ital">jackals </span>(not "dragons"--comp. <a href="/jeremiah/9-11.htm" title="And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.">Jeremiah 9:11</a>) stand panting for their prey. By some scholars the word is taken as meaning, like a kindred word in <a href="/ezekiel/29-3.htm" title="Speak, and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the middle of his rivers, which has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.">Ezekiel 29:3</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/32-2.htm" title="Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are as a whale in the seas: and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.">Ezekiel 32:2</a>, "crocodiles," with their wide gaping jaws.<p><span class= "bld">There was no grass.</span>--The word is not the same as that in <a href="/jeremiah/14-5.htm" title="Yes, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.">Jeremiah 14:5</a>, and implies <span class= "bld">a </span>larger and ranker herbage than that on which the hind fed.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/14.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The wild asses... in the high places</span>; rather, <span class="accented">on the bare heights</span>. "<span class="accented">The</span> wild asses," says a traveler cited by Rosenmüller," are especially fond of treeless mountains." <span class="cmt_word">Like dragons</span>; render rather, <span class="accented">like jackals</span> (<span class="accented">as Jeremiah</span> 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, <span class="cmt_word">because there was</span> [is] <span class="cmt_word">no grass</span>; rather, <span class="accented">herbage</span>. They grow dim first with seeking it so long in vain, and then from lack of nourishment. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Wild donkeys</span><br /><span class="heb">וּפְרָאִים֙</span> <span class="translit">(ū·p̄ə·rā·’îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6501.htm">Strong's 6501: </a> </span><span class="str2">A wild donkey</span><br /><br /><span class="word">stand</span><br /><span class="heb">עָמְד֣וּ</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·mə·ḏū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5975.htm">Strong's 5975: </a> </span><span class="str2">To stand, in various relations</span><br /><br /><span class="word">on</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">barren heights;</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁפָיִ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(šə·p̄ā·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8205.htm">Strong's 8205: </a> </span><span class="str2">Bareness, a smooth or bare height</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they pant</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁאֲפ֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(šā·’ă·p̄ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7602.htm">Strong's 7602: </a> </span><span class="str2">To inhale eagerly, to cover, to be angry, to hasten</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for air</span><br /><span class="heb">ר֖וּחַ</span> <span class="translit">(rū·aḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7307.htm">Strong's 7307: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like jackals;</span><br /><span class="heb">כַּתַּנִּ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(kat·tan·nîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k, Article | Noun - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8577.htm">Strong's 8577: </a> </span><span class="str2">A marine, land monster, sea-serpent, jackal</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their eyes</span><br /><span class="heb">עֵינֵיהֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(‘ê·nê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - cdc | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5869.htm">Strong's 5869: </a> </span><span class="str2">An eye, a fountain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">fail</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(kā·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3615.htm">Strong's 3615: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּי־</span> <span class="translit">(kî-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">lack</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵ֥ין</span> <span class="translit">(’ên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> </span><span class="str2">A non-entity, a negative particle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of pasture.”</span><br /><span class="heb">עֵֽשֶׂב׃</span> <span class="translit">(‘ê·śeḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6212.htm">Strong's 6212: </a> </span><span class="str2">Herb, herbage</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:6 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/14-6.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 14:6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/14-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 14:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 14:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/14-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 14:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 14:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>