Jeremiah 2:24
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24 a wild ass at home in 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.(A)
Jeremiah 14:6
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6 The wild asses stand on the bare heights;[a]
they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
because there is no herbage.(A)
Footnotes
- 14.6 Or the trails
Hosea 5:15
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15 I will return again to my place
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face.
In their distress they will beg my favor:(A)
Jeremiah 2:27
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27 who say to a tree, “You are my father,”
and to a stone, “You gave me birth.”
For they have turned their backs to me
and not their faces.
But in the time of their trouble they say,
“Come and save us!”(A)
Job 39:5-8
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5 “Who has let the wild ass go free?
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,(A)
6 to which I have given the steppe for its home,
the salt land for its dwelling place?(B)
7 It scorns the tumult of the city;
it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
8 It ranges the mountains as its pasture,
and it searches after every green thing.
Job 11:12
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12 But the stupid will get understanding
when a wild ass is born human.[a]
Footnotes
- 11.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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