Jeremiah 4:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. ”

Jeremiah 4:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian captivity. Jeremiah 4:23 Without form, and void - Desolate a...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Vision of Desolation ( Jeremiah 4:23-26 ) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before creation ( mg. ) under a sky that has lost its lamp...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

What he saw the third time was solitude; for he says that there were no men, and that all birds had fled away. The principal ornament of the world, we know, consists of men and of living c...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. The birds of the heavens were fled - The land was so desolated that even the fowls of heaven could not find meat, an...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I beheld the earth, &c.— The images, under which the prophet represents the approaching desolation as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew poets on the like occasions. (See L...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. No man ... birds - no vestige of the human, or of the feathered creation, is to be seen ( Ezekiel 38:20 ; Zep...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet Sets Forth the Sin of the Nation and Points Out the Inevitable Result (Reign of Josiah, and Probably Before the Reforms of that King: cp. Jeremiah 3:6 ) This section furnishes us with...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

There was no man. — To chaos and darkness and the earthquake was added the horrible sense of solitude. Not man only, but the creatures that seemed least open to man’s attack, were fled. (Comp. Jer...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 5:1-31 ; Jeremiah 6:1-30 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages of p...
Jeremiah 4:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in ext...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their a...
Jeremiah 4:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I beheld, and, lo, there was no man ,.... No people dwelling in it, as the Targum; the land was without inhabitants, they were either killed with the sword, or taken and carried captive into Bab...
Jeremiah 4:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I beheld, and, lo, [there was] no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. Ver. 25. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man. ] But all killed, captived, or fled. Judaea lay utterly waste for s...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void “The images under which the prophet here represents the approaching desolation, as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew p...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Punishment Predicted. B. C. 620. 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There was no man; quite depopulated and laid waste, all either slain, or carried captive, or fled; for after the flight of men, women, and children into Egypt, upon the death of Gedaliah, scarce a...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Warns Judah That If They Will Not Repent For Them Too Invasion By A Fierce Adversary Is Threatening And Will Undoubtedly Come Because Of Their Sins ( Jeremiah 4:3-31 ). If Judah will not resp...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Chronology of the chapter, Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History as in chap. 3. 1. Geographical References. Jeremiah 4:5 . “ Defenced cit...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 4:1-2 . If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The L...
Jeremiah 4:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:3 . Break up your fallow ground. Hebrews ניר nir, novale; make new land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12 . Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the...
Jeremiah 4:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

I am pained at my very heart. The prophet’s lamentations over his people’s doom I. The complaint or lamentation itself. 1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man. (1) The secrecy of...
Jeremiah 4:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 4:1 , Jeremiah 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, If thou wilt return , O Israel , saith Jehovah , wilt return unto me ; a...
Jeremiah 4:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation.
Jeremiah 4:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 4:3 ; Zephaniah 1:2 ; Zephaniah 1:3
Jeremiah 4:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

No man — All being either slain, or carried captive, or fled.

Jeremiah 4:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 4:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 4:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 4:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 4:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 4:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 4:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 4:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 4:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 4:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 4:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes