How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
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Gill's Exposition
How do the beasts groan?.... For want of fodder, all green grass and herbs being eaten up by the locusts; or devoured, or trampled upon, and destroyed, by the Chaldeans; and also for want of water to…
Barnes' Notes
How do the beasts groan! - There is something very pitiable in the cry of the brute creation, even because they are innocent, yet bear man’s guilt. Their groaning seems to the prophet to be beyond…
We have observed abundance of tears shed for the destruction of the fruits of the earth by the locusts; now here we have those tears turned into the right channel, that of repentance and humiliation…
Cambridge Bible
The distress of the cattle through lack of pasture (cf. Jer 14:5-6).
are perplexed wandering hither and thither in quest of food [33].
[33] LXX. for מה נאנחה בהמה express מַה־נַּנִּחָה בָהֵמָּה,…
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