King James Version
What Does Jeremiah 14:5 Mean?
“Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.”
Context
3
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits , and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
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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.
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O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(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.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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