Jeremias 14:5
Yea, the hind also brought forth in the field, and left it, because there was no grass.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nam et cerva in agro peperit, et reliquit, quia non erat herba.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔλαφοι ἐν ἀγρῷ ἔτεκον καὶ ἐνκατέλιπον, ὅτι οὐκ ἦν βοτάνη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֤י גַם אַיֶּ֨לֶת֙ בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה יָלְדָ֖ה וְעָז֑וֹב כִּ֥י לֹֽא הָיָ֖ה דֶּֽשֶׁא
Haydock's commentary
Field. They prefer places frequented by men. (Pliny, [Natural History?] viii. 32.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch, Homily III
9. Let us see then how the Ninevites fasted, and how they were delivered from that wrath, “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything,” saith (the prophet). What sayest thou? Tell me, must even the irrational things fast, and the horses and the mules be covered with sackcloth? “Even so,” he replies. For as when, at the decease of some rich man, the relatives clothe not only the men servants and maid servants, but the horses also with sackcloth, and give orders that they should follow the procession to the sepulchre, led by their grooms; thus signifying the greatness of the calamity, and inviting all to pity; thus also, indeed, when that city was about to be destroyed, even the irrational nature was enveloped in sackcloth, and subjected to the yoke of fasting. …