A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure ; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
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Gill's Exposition
Withhold thy foot from being unshod,.... That it may not be unshod, be naked and bare. The sense is, either, as some, do not take long journeys into foreign countries for help, as into Assyria and…
Barnes' Notes
A wild donkey used to the wilderness - The type of an untamed and reckless nature. Snuffeth up the wind - The wind brings with it the scent of the male. Israel does not wait until temptation comes of…
In these verses the prophet goes on with his charge against this backsliding people. Observe here,
I. The sin itself that he charges them with - idolatry, that great provocation which they were so…
Cambridge Bible
a wild ass used to the wilderness revelling in uncontrolled licence. Cp. Job 39:5 ff. The noun is not a simile for the young camel of Jer 2:2 (a metaphor within a metaphor), but a further metaphor for…
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