Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 14:5

"Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh [her young], because there is no grass." — Jeremiah 14:5 (ASV)

Yea. —Better, For, as the Hebrew is usually translated. What follows gives the reason for the terror which has come upon the people. Each region has its representative instance of misery. The hind of the field (the female of the common stag—the Cervus elaphus of zoologists), noted for its tenderness to its young, abandons it, and turns away to seek pasture for itself, and fails to find any.