Jeremiah 14:6

14:6 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.” ¹ 

Jeremiah 51:37

51:37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins.

Jackals will make their home there. ² 

It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn,

a place where no one lives. ³ 

[14:6]  ¹ tn Heb “their eyes are strained because there is no verdure.”

[51:37]  ² tn Heb “a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals.” Compare 9:11.

[51:37]  ³ tn Heb “without an inhabitant.”