Hosea 4:3; Zephaniah 1:2; Zephaniah 1:3
In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian captivity. Jere...
The Vision of Desolation ( Jeremiah 4:23-26 ) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before c...
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 t...
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 tha...
I beheld the earth, &c.— The images, under which the prophet represents the approaching desolation as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar...
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 feathe...
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...
5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem.
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...
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 wh...
Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He app...
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 t...
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 wit...
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,...
I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void “The images under which the prophet here represents the approaching desolation, as foresee...
Punishment Predicted. B. C. 620. 19...
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...
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...
Jeremiah's Vision Of The Aftermath Of The Invasion ( Jeremiah 4:23-31 ). In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its destruction, a...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Chronology of the chapter, Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History as in chap. 3. 1. Geogra...
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...
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 f...
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 affecte...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 4:1 , Jeremiah 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, If thou wilt return , O I...
The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which h...
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, the land itself was stripped of its inhabitants, and all the birds of the heavens were fled, preferring to shu...
No man — All being either slain, or carried captive, or fled.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.