Jeremiah 14:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The wild asses stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And the wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals or crocodiles; their eyesight fails because there is no grass.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

Common English Bible

⁶ The wild donkeys stand on the well-traveled paths, panting like thirsty dogs; they go blind since there’s nothing to eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And the wild donkeys stood upon the rocks; like dragons, they drew in the wind, but their eyes failed. For there was no grass."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons: their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

Jeremiah 14:6 Cross References

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture for flocks;

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild ass at home in the wilderness in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; we were watching eagerly for a nation that could not save.

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our hearts are sick; because of these things our eyes have grown dim:

Joel 1:18

How the animals groan! The herds of cattle wander about because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep are perishing.

1 Samuel 14:29

Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land; see how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.