Jeremiah 4:25 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 4:25

I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The birds of the heavens were fled - The land was so desolated that even the fowls of heaven could not find meat, and therefore fled away to another region. How powerfully energetic is this description! See Zep 1:3.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
רָאִ֕יתִי	ra.'I.ti	I looked	H7200 →
וְהִנֵּ֖ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
אֵ֣ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
הָאָדָ֑ם	ha.'a.Dam	[was] <the> humankind	H120 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and every	H3605 →
ע֥וֹף	of	<the> bird of	H5775 →
הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם	ha.sha.Ma.yim	the heavens	H8064 →
נָדָֽדוּ׃	na.Da.du	they had fled	H5074 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 9:10
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not…
leads to
- Jeremiah 12:4
  How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said,…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hosea 4:3
  Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
leads to
- Zephaniah 1:3
  “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind…
- Nahum 1:4
  He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
- Isaiah 24:4–12
  The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
- Ezekiel 38:20
  The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at…
Through
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said,…
leads to
- Jeremiah 9:10
  I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not…
- Psalms 107:34
  and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

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01Commentary

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah