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The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
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An Unmistakable Judgment
Commentators explain that the suffering of the wild asses—hardy animals known for their resilience and keen sight—is meant to be an extraordinary sign. Their desperation highlights a drought so severe it could only be from God. John Calvin notes this was to prevent the people from blaming natural causes and force them to recognize God's specific judgment on their sin.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Like dragons – Like jackals (Jeremiah 9:11).
No grass – The keen sight of the wild donkey is well known, …
19th Century
Anglican
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…
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…
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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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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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…
