Yeremia 14:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Keledai-keledai hutan berdiri di atas bukit gundul, mengap-mengap seperti serigala, matanya menjadi lesu, sebab tidak ada rumput.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Keledai-keledai hutan berdiri di atas bukit gundul, mengap-mengap seperti serigala, matanya menjadi lesu, sebab tidak ada rumput.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
maka keledai hutanpun berdiri di atas tempat-tempat yang tinggi, ia menghela nafas seperti naga, matanya kaburlah sebab tiadalah tumbuh-tumbuhan.

Contextual Overview

¹ The worde of the Lorde shewed vnto Ieremie concernyng the dearth of the fruites. ² Iuda hath mourned, his gates are desolate, they are brought to heauinesse, euen vnto the grounde, and the crye of Hierusalem goeth vp. ³ The Lordes sent their seruauntes to fetche water, and when they came to the welles, they did finde no water, but caried their vessels home emptie: they be ashamed and confounded, and couer their heades. ⁴ For the grounde is dryed, because there commeth no rayne vpon it: the plowmen also be ashamed and couer their heades. ⁵ The hynde also forsoke the young fawne that he brought foorth in the fielde, because there was no grasse. ⁶ The wylde asses did stande in the hye places, and drewe in their winde lyke the dragons, their eyes did fayle for want of grasse. ⁷ Doubtlesse our owne wickednesse doth rewarde vs: but Lorde do thou accordyng to thy name, though our transgression and sinnes be many, and agaynst thee haue we sinned. ⁸ For thou art the comfort and helpe of Israel in the tyme of trouble: Why wilt thou be as a straunger in the lande, and as one that goeth his iourney, and cometh in only to remayne for a night? ⁹ Why wylt thou make thy selfe a cowarde, and as it were a giaunt that yet may not helpe? But thou O Lorde art in the middest of vs, and thy name is called vpon of vs, forsake vs not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the wild: Jeremiah 2:24, Job 39:5, Job 39:6

they: They sucked in the air, for want of water, to cool their internal heat.

their: 1 Samuel 14:29, Lamentations 4:17, Lamentations 5:17, Joel 1:18

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:5 - grass Job 6:5 - loweth Psalms 104:14 - causeth Jeremiah 9:10 - because Lamentations 1:6 - harts Romans 8:20 - the creature

Cross-References

Genesis 14:20
And blessed [be] the high God, which hath deliuered thyne enemies vnto thy hande: and Abram gaue him tithes of all.

Genesis 16:7
And the angel of the Lord founde her beside a fountaine in ye wildernes, [euen] by the well that is in the way to Sur,

Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wyldernesse of Paran, and his mother got hym a wyfe out of the lande of Egypt.

Genesis 36:8
Thus dwelt Esau in mounte Seir, the same Esau, is Edom.

Numbers 10:12
And the children of Israel toke their iourney out of the desert of Sinai, and the cloude rested in the wildernesse of Pharan.

Numbers 12:16
And afterwarde the people remoued from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wyldernesse of Pharan.

Numbers 13:3
And Moyses at the commaundement of the Lorde, sent foorth out of the wyldernesse of Pharan, suche men as were all heades of the chyldren of Israel.

Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horims also dwelt in Seir before tyme, whom the chyldren of Esau chased out, & destroyed them before them, and dwelt in their steade, as Israel did vnto the lande of his possession, whiche the Lorde gaue them.

Habakkuk 3:3
God commeth from Theman, and the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. his glorie couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the wild asses did stand in the high places,.... To see where any grass was to be had, or where the wind blows more freely and cooly, to draw it in; as follows. The Targum renders it, "by the brooks"; and so Jarchi interprets it brooks of water; whither they came as usual to drink, and found them now dried up; and where they stood distressed and languishing, not knowing where to go for any:

they snuffed up the wind like dragons: which, being of a hot nature, open their mouths, and draw in the wind and air to cool them. Aelianus b reports of the dragons in Phrygia, that they open their mouths, and not only draw in the air, but even birds flying. The word used for dragons signifies large fishes, great whales; and some understand it of crocodiles, who will lift up their heads above water to refresh themselves with the air:

their eyes did fail; in looking about for grass; or for want of food, being quite starved and famished:

because there was no grass; for their food and nourishment. With great propriety is the herb or grass mentioned, this being the proper food of asses, as Aristotle c observes; and with which agrees the Scripture; which represents them as content when they have it; and as ranging about the mountains for it when they have none; being creatures very impatient of hunger and thirst; see Job 6:5 wherefore the Greek writers surname this animal dry and thirsty; and hence the lying story of Tacitus d, concerning Moses and the children of Israel; who, he says, being ready to perish for want of water, Moses observed a flock of wild asses going from their pasture to a rock covered with trees, and followed them, taking it for herbage, and found large fountains of water. And very pertinently are their eyes said to fail for want of food, and the sight of them grow dim, which is more or less the case of all creatures in such circumstances; but the rather is this observed of the wild ass, because, as an Arabic writer e suggests, it is naturally very sharp and clear sighted.

b De Animal. l. 2. c. 21. c Hist. Animal. l. 8. c. 8. d Histor. l. 5. c. 3. e Damir apud Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 3. c. 16. col. 878.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Like dragons - “Like jackals” Jeremiah 9:11.

No grass - The keen sight of the wild donkey is well known, but they look around in vain for herb.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 14:6. Snuffed up the wind like dragons — תנים tannim here probably means the hippopotamus, who, after feeding under the water, is obliged to come to the surface in order to take in fresh draughts of air; or it may mean the wild asses.