Jeremiah 2:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • Jer 14:6 : 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.”
  • Hos 5:15 : 15 Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.
  • Job 11:12 : 12 But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.
  • Job 39:5-8 : 5 Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey, 6 to whom I appointed the arid rift valley for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place? 7 It scorns the tumult in the town; it does not hear the shouts of a driver. 8 It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 They say to a wooden idol,‘You are my father.’ They say to a stone image,‘You gave birth to me.’ Yes, they have turned away from me instead of turning to me. Yet when they are in trouble, they say,‘Come and save us!’

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  • Job 39:4-6
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    4 Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

    5 Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

    6 to whom I appointed the arid rift valley for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

  • 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

  • 25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say,‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’

  • 23 “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.

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    19 Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

    20 She lusted after her lovers there, whose genitals were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions.

    21 This is how you assessed the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples and squeezed your young breasts.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5 Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass.

    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.”

  • Job 39:1-2
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    1 “Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

    2 Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

  • 12 But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.

  • Hos 2:5-7
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    5 For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said,“I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.

    6 The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

    7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say,“I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.”

  • 5 Complaints Reflect Suffering“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox bellow over its fodder?

  • 18 But as soon as she springs up, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21 She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.

    22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

  • 24 She saddled the donkey and told her servant,“Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”

  • 9 Israel’s Hired Lovers They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.

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    19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman.

    20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said,“I have not done wrong.”

  • 14 Future Repentance and Restoration of Israel However, in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

  • Prov 5:19-20
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    19 a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

    20 But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

  • 11 They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

  • 16 Whoever contains her has contained the wind or can grasp oil with his right hand.

  • 10 Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!

  • 9 Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit.

  • 8 They are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor’s wife.

  • Prov 7:11-12
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    11 (She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home–

    12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

  • Job 39:15-16
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    15 She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might trample them.

    16 She is harsh with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.

  • 8 The Lover to His Beloved: If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.

  • 16 yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).

  • 16 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding she has said,

  • 6 This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

  • 17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.

  • 3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.

  • 12 She lusted after the Assyrians– governors and officials, warriors in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

  • 16 Carefully read the scroll of the LORD! Not one of these creatures will be missing, none will lack a mate. For the LORD has issued the decree, and his own spirit gathers them.

  • 22 Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion.

  • 20 you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

  • 4 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding, she has said,

  • 2 “Look up at the hilltops and consider this. Where have you not been ravished? You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

  • 26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.