Jeremiah 14:6 - Exposition

The wild asses … in the high places ; rather, on the bare heights . " The wild asses," says a traveler cited by Rosenmüller," are especially fond of treeless mountains." Like dragons ; render rather, like jackals ( as Jeremiah 9:11 ; Jeremiah 10:22 ). The allusion is to the way jackals hold their head as they howl. We are told that even the keen eyes of the wild asses fail, because there was [is] no grass ; rather, herbage . They grow dim first with seeking it so long in vain, and then from lack of nourishment.