Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Even the doe in the field gives birth and then abandons her young because there is no grass.
New American Standard Bible
Because there is
King James Version
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Holman Bible
gives birth and abandons her fawn
since there is no grass.
A Conservative Version
Yea, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [it] because there is no grass.
American Standard Version
Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young , because there is no grass.
Amplified
“The doe in the field has given birth only to abandon her young
Because there is no grass.
Bible in Basic English
And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.
Darby Translation
For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh its young, because there is no grass.
Julia Smith Translation
For also the hind brought forth in the field, and forsook, for there was no grass.
King James 2000
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For even [the] doe in the field gives birth and forsakes [her young], because there is no green growth.
Modern King James verseion
Yea, the doe also calved in the field and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The Hind shall forsake the young fawn that she bringeth forth in the field because there shall be no grass.
NET Bible
Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass.
New Heart English Bible
Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.
The Emphasized Bible
For, even the hind of the field hath calved and forsaken, Because there is no young herbage;
Webster
Yes, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
World English Bible
Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.
Youngs Literal Translation
For even the hind in the field hath brought forth -- to forsake it! For there hath been no grass.
Themes
Famine » Suffering of brute creation from
Interlinear
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 14:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Severe Drought
4 The ground is cracked, because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers are disappointed, and they cover their heads in shame. 5 Even the doe in the field gives birth and then abandons her young because there is no grass. 6 Wild donkeys stand on the barren hills. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyesight fails because there is no vegetation."
Names
Cross References
Psalm 29:9
The voice of the LORD causes deer to give birth, and strips the forest bare. In his Temple all of them shout, "Glory!"
Job 39:1-4
"Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?
Isaiah 15:6
The Nimrim waters are desolate; the grass is withered, its vegetation gone; there is no foliage left.