Good News TranslationThe wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals; their eyesight fails them because they have no food.
New Revised Standard Version
The wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.
Contemporary English Version
Wild donkeys go blind from starvation. So they stand on barren hilltops and sniff the air, hoping to smell green grass.
New American Bible
The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, gasping for breath like jackals; Their eyes grow dim; there is no grass.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the wild asses stood upon the rocks, they snuffed up the wind like dragons, their eyes failed, because there was no grass.
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Jeremiah 2:24 A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.
Job 39:5,6 Who hath sent out the wild ass free, and who hath loosed his bonds? . . .
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1 Samuel 14:29 And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have seen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey:
Lamentations 4:17 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.
Lamentations 5:17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.
Joel 1:18 Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished.
