Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 14:6
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 5, 6.) For even the deer (or deer) in the field give birth (or gave birth) and abandon (or abandoned) because there is no grass. And the wild donkeys stood on the cliffs, they drew in the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there is no grass (or hay). Great sterility, when even the deer in the field g…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.
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In context
4And the labors of the land failed, because there was no rain: the husbandmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5And hinds calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
— Jeremiah 14:6 —
7Our sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do thou for us for thine own sake; for our sins are many before thee; for we have sinned against thee.
8O Lord, thou art the hope of Israel, and deliverest us in time of troubles; why art thou become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting place?