The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.
a wild donkey used to 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.
“Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?
How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer.
For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.
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