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Nature Turned Upside Down
Commentators highlight the shocking image of a mother deer (a hind) abandoning her newborn. Hinds were known for being exceptionally caring mothers. For one to forsake its young due to the severe drought demonstrates how this calamity was so extreme that it overturned the very instincts of nature.
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Jeremiah
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Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 14:5
19th Century
Bishop
Yea. —Better, For, as the Hebrew is usually translated. What follows gives the reason for the terror which has come upon …
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 14:2–6
19th Century
Preacher
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…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 14:5–6
16th Century
Theologian
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 …
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 14:5
17th Century
Pastor
Yea, the hind also calved in the field
Or brought forth her young in the field; of which see (Job 39:1–4)…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 14:1–9
17th Century
Minister
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…