Jeremiah 14:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ And 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 shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim;

Joel 1:18

How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

1 Samuel 14:29

Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.