Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.
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Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.
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Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
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Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass,
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 14:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 29:9 Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”
- Job 39:1-4 “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns? Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth? They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains. Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.
- Isaiah 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain Jeremiah now comes to animals: he said before, that…
Jeremiah now comes to animals: he said before, that men would be visited with thirst, and then that the ground would become dry, so theft husbandmen would be ashamed; he now says that the wild asses and the hinds would become partakers of this scarcity. The hind, he says, has brought forth in the field, which was not usual; but he says that such would be the drought, that the hinds would come forth to the plains. The hinds, we know, wander in solitary places and there seek their food, and do not thus expose themselves; for they have a natural timidity, which keeps them from encountering danger. But he says that hinds, big with young, shall be constrained by famine to come to the fields and bring forth there, and then flee away: and yet they prefer their young to their own life. But the Prophet here shews that there would be something extraordinary in that vengeance of God, which was nigh the Jews, in order that they might know that the heavens and the earth and all the elements were armed against them by God, for they had so deserved. But he says, Bring forth shall the hind, and then he adds, and will forsake its young: but why will it bring forth in the field? even because it will not find grass in the mountains, and in the woods, and in the usual places.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, that the brute beasts for drought were compelled…
Meaning, that the brute beasts for drought were compelled to forsake their young, contrary to nature, and to go seek water which they could not find.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the…
Jer 14:5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.
Ver. 5. Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it.] The loving hind; {Pro 5:19} Alioqui studiosa sui partus, {a} that is otherwise so exceeding chary and careful of her young.
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{a} Plin., lib. viii. cap. 32.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Hinds use not to get their food in fields,…
Hinds use not to get their food in fields, but upon the mountains and in wildernesses; but the drought was such, that these wild creatures came into the lower grounds, nearer the habitations of men than they were wont, and there brought forth their young. The hinds are loving creatures, and as all creatures by a natural instinct love their young, so the hinds especially; but their moisture being dried up, they could not suckle them, but were forced to leave them, running about here and there to seek grass to eat.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Yea, the hind also calved in the field,.... Or…
Yea, the hind also calved in the field,.... Or brought forth her young in the field; of which see Job 39:1, and which they sometimes did through fear, particularly when frightened with thunder and lightning; and which are common in a time of heat and drought, which is the case here; see Psa 29:9 of these sort of creatures there were great plenty in Judea and the parts adjacent. Aelianus (z) says, the harts in Syria are bred on the highest mountains, Amanus, Lebanon, and Carmel; which were mountains on the borders of the land of Canaan; and the flesh of these was much used for food by the Jews; see Deu 12:15,
and forsook it; which, as it is a loving creature to its mate, so very careful of its young, and provident for it, and nourishes it, as Pliny (a) observes. The reason of such uncommon usage follows:
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because there was no grass; for the hind to feed upon, and so had no milk to suckle its young with; and therefore left it to seek for grass elsewhere, that it might have food for itself, and milk for its young.
(z) De Anima. l. 5. c. 56. (a) Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 32.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The hind - Hinds use not to get their…
The hind - Hinds use not to get their food in fields, but upon mountains and in wildernesses, but the drought was such, that these creatures came into the lower grounds, and there brought forth their young. The hinds are loving creatures and as all creatures love their young, so hinds especially; but their moisture being dried up, they could not suckle them, but were forced to leave them, running about to seek grass to eat.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Field. They prefer places frequented by men. (Pliny, [Natural…
Field. They prefer places frequented by men. (Pliny, [Natural History?] viii. 32.)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain The brute creation is reduced to the utmost extremity…
The brute creation is reduced to the utmost extremity for the want of food. The "hind," famed for her affection to her young, abandons them.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. The hind — Celebrated by the ancients as…
5. The hind — Celebrated by the ancients as tenderly caring for her young; hence giving special emphasis.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. the hind] For her affection for her young…
5. the hind] For her affection for her young cp. Pro_5:19, and for ancient writers’ testimony to it see Bochart, Hierozoicon, Bk. 3 ch. 17.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) Yea.—Better, For, as the Hebrew is usually translated.…
(5) Yea.—Better, For, as the Hebrew is usually translated. What follows gives the reason of 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.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Even the animals starve. Yea, the hind also. The…
Even the animals starve. Yea, the hind also. The hind, contrary to that intense natural affection for which she was famous among the ancients, abandons her young.
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