Jeremiah 14:6

14:6 Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops

and pant for breath like jackals.

Their eyes are strained looking for food,

because there is none to be found.” 1 

Jeremiah 34:20

34:20 I will hand them over to their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals. 2 

Jeremiah 52:6

52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month 3  the famine in the city was so severe the residents 4  had no food.

1 tn Heb “their eyes are strained because there is no verdure.”

2 sn See this same phrase in Jer 7:33; 16:4; 19:7.

3 sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

4 tn Heb “the people of the land.”