Jeremiah 14:6
Context14:6 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
Context34:20 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
Context52:6 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
4 tn Heb “the people of the land.”