Thematic Bible: Wild Donkey


Thematic Bible



For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

And he was driven from the sons of men, and his mind was made like the animals', and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he wants.


"How can you say, 'I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways; a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.


He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains. They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.


He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."


The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage."


An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.


For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.


For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.


An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.


Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.


"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,


The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.


He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.


Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?