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# General Information:
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Yahweh, through the prophet Jeremiah, has continued to tell the people about the drought.
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# The plowmen are ashamed and cover their heads
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In biblical times, people would wear a headcovering to show that they were ashamed. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-symaction]])
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# the doe leaves her young in the fields and abandons them
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These two phrase have the same meaning and emphasize that the doe leaves her young deer because she cannot provide for them. A doe is a female deer. AT: "the deer leaves her young in the field" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# for there is no grass
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This means that there is no grass for the deer to eat. AT: "for there is no grass for them to eat" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# they pant in the wind like jackals
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This speaks of the donkeys panting because they are thirsty by saying that they pant like jackals. Jackals are fiece wild dog which pant a lot. AT: "they pant in the wind like thirsty jackals" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# Their eyes fail to work, for there is no vegetation
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"They become blind because there is no grass to eat"
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/donkey]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/works]] |