“Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man!
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?
they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.
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.
For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
“Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds.
He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”
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