Thematic Bible: Wild Donkey
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wild Donkey » Inhabits wild and solitary places
For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there.
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to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?
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He was driven from human society, his mind was changed to that of an animal, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.
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wild Donkey » Illustrative of » Israel in their love of idols
"How can you say, 'I have not made myself unclean. I have not paid allegiance to the gods called Baal.' Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom! Think about the things you have done there! You are like a flighty, young female camel that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path. You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.
wild Donkey » Supported by God
He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains. They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
wild Donkey » Illustrative of » The ishmaelites
He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers."
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wild Donkey » Suffers in time of scarcity
Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found."
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wild Donkey » Illustrative of » Intractableness of natural man
But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey's colt is born a human being.
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wild Donkey » Illustrative of » The assyrian power
They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.
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wild Donkey » Described as » Unsocial
They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.
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wild Donkey » Described as » Intractable
But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey's colt is born a human being.
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wild Donkey » Illustrative of » The wicked in their pursuit of sin
Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.
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wild Donkey » Described as » Fond of liberty
Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,
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wild Donkey » Ranges the mountains for food
It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.
wild Donkey » Despises his pursuers
It scorns the tumult in the town; it does not hear the shouts of a driver.
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wild Donkey » Brays when hungry
"Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox low near its fodder?
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