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; Zephaniah 1:3). From the tendency of the Holy Spirit in the prophets to hasten toward the final consummation, language is used of the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon which only finds its full and exhaustive accomplishment in the final conflagration of the earth, previous to a far more glorious creation than that described in Genesis 1:2, etc., when the earth was similarly, as it shall be temporarily again, "without form anal void" (Jeremiah 4:23).