Thematic Bible: Wild Donkey


Thematic Bible



For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, 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 heart was made like the beasts , and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the Most High God ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that he setteth up over it whomsoever he will.


How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.


He sendeth forth springs into the valleys; They run among the mountains; They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild asses quench their thirst.


And he shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand'shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.


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


But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt.


For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.


For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.


But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt.


Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.


Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,


The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.


He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.


Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?


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