Thematic Bible: Wild Donkey


Thematic Bible



For [the] palace will be forsaken, [the] {crowded city} deserted; [the] hill and [the] watchtower will become a cave forever, [the] joy of wild asses, a pasture {for} flocks.

[to] which I have given [the] wilderness [as] its house and [the] salt flat [as] its dwelling place?

And he was driven away {from human society} and his mind was made like the animals and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses; [and] {he was given} grass like oxen to eat, and with the dew of heaven his body was bathed, until he acknowledged that the Most High God [is] sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and {whoever} he wants he sets over it.


"How can you say, 'I have not defiled myself, I have not gone after the Baals?' Look at your way in the valley, know what you have done. [You are] a young she-camel, interweaving her ways. A wild ass accustomed to [the] desert, in the desire of her soul. She gasps [for] wind [in] her rutting time. Who can quell her [lust]? All [those who] seek her will not grow weary, in her month they will find her.


[You are] the one who sends forth springs into the valleys; they flow between [the] mountains. They give drink for every beast of [the] field. [The] wild donkeys {quench} their thirst.


And he shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand [will be] against everyone, and the hand of everyone [will be] against him, and he will live {in hostility with all his brothers}."


And wild asses stand on [the] barren heights, they gasp [for] breath like the jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no vegetation."


But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.


For they have gone up [to] Assyria, a wild donkey alone to itself; Ephraim has sold itself [for] lovers.


For they have gone up [to] Assyria, a wild donkey alone to itself; Ephraim has sold itself [for] lovers.


But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.


"Look, [like] wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor [as] searchers for the prey; [the] wilderness [is] {their} food for the young.


"Who has sent forth [the] wild ass free? And who has released [the] wild donkey's bonds,


It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.


It scorns [the] city's turmoil; it does not hear [the] driver's shouts.


Does [the] wild ass bray over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder?