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Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.
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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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19th Century
Anglican
Yea. —Better, For, as the Hebrew is usually translated. What follows gives the reason for the terror which has come upon …
Baptist
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, the hind also calved in the fieldOr brought forth her young in the field; of which see (Job 39:1–4)…
Presbyterian
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…
13th Century
Catholic
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…
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