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Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn
    because there is no grass.
The wild asses stand on the bare heights,[a]
    they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
    because there is no herbage.

Although our iniquities testify against us,
    act, O Lord, for your name’s sake;
our apostasies indeed are many,
    and we have sinned against you.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 14:6 Or the trails

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