Like dragons – Like jackals (Jeremiah 9:11).

No grass – The keen sight of the wild donkey is well known, …

The wild asses. — From the field, the prophet’s eye turns to the bare hilltops of the “high places” and sees a scene of similar di…

The distress in the land was so great that the city gates, where, in more prosperous times, business transactions took place, and meetings of the p…

Jeremiah now turns to animals. He previously said that men would be afflicted by thirst, and then that the ground would become so dry that farmers …

And the wild asses stood in the high places
To see where any grass was to be had, or where the wind blows more freel…

The people were in tears. But it was the cry of their trouble and their sin, rather than of their prayer. Let us be thankful for the mercy of water…

1. Here, the prophet begins to intercede with his prayer to God on their behalf, so that they might obtain mercy in some way, at least after…