(A)The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;
    they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
    because there is no vegetation.

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24     (A)a wild donkey used to 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.

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“Who has let the wild donkey go free?
    Who has (A)loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
to whom I have given (B)the arid plain for his home
    and (C)the salt land for his dwelling place?

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18 How (A)the beasts groan!
    The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
    even the flocks of sheep suffer.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:18 Or are made desolate

17 For this (A)our heart has become sick,
    for these things (B)our eyes have grown dim,

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17 (A)Our eyes failed, ever watching
    (B)vainly for help;
in our watching we watched
    for (C)a nation which could not save.

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29 Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.

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