Jeremiah 4:7 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

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ASV

A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

KJV

The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 5 (253)

"Take up your baggage and flee to Zion"; as many of you as are outside Zion, "take up your baggage and flee to Zion; hasten, do not stand still," you who are in progress hasten to the Watchtower, "for I bring evils from the north and great destruction"—of the evils brought "from the north," from the north of the adversary, as has often been said; and whoever is found not to have hastened, nor to have entered "into the walled cities," not having come to be in "the churches of God," but standing outside, he himself, being seized by the enemies, will be destroyed.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

SIX BOOKS ON JEREMIAH 1:72.1-3 (420)

This is the true Nebuchadnezzar, as we have said before, about whom Peter also said, "Our adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion." He ascended from the depths to which he had been relegated and for fear that he is sent back, the plunderer or destroyer of the nations entreats and arises. He is whom it was said that "he will dominate all his enemies" and those who boast in the face of the Lord: "I have gone around the earth and trampled it."

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Rather, A “lion”... a “destroyer” of nations: a metaphor descriptive of the impending calamity. A lion is just rousing himself from his lair, but no common one. It is destroyer, not of men, but of nations. Is on his way - literally, “has broken up his encampment.” Jeremiah uses a military term strictly referring to the striking of tents in preparation for the march. Without an inhabitant - The final stage of destruction, actually reached in the utter depopulation of Judaea consequent upon Gedaliah’s murder.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עָלָ֤ה	'a.Lah	it has gone up	H5927 →
אַרְיֵה֙	'ar.Yeh	a lion	H738 →
מִֽסֻּבְּכ֔וֹ	mi.su.be.Kho	from thicket its	H5441 →
וּמַשְׁחִ֣ית	u.mash.Chit	and a destroyer of	H7843 →
גּוֹיִ֔ם	go.Yim	nations	H1471 →
נָסַ֖ע	na.Sa'	he has set out	H5265 →
יָצָ֣א	ya.Tza'	he has gone out	H3318 →
מִמְּקֹמ֑וֹ	mi.me.ko.Mo	from place his	H4725 →
לָשׂ֤וּם	la.Sum	to make	H7760 →
אַרְצֵךְ֙	'ar.tzeKh	land your	H776 →
לְשַׁמָּ֔ה	le.sha.Mah	into a waste	H8047 →
עָרַ֥יִךְ	'a.Ra.yikh	cities your	H5892 →
תִּצֶּ֖ינָה	ti.Tzei.nah	they will fall in ruins	H5327 →
מֵאֵ֥ין	me.'Ein	from not	H369 →
יוֹשֵֽׁב׃	yo.Shev	inhabitant	H3427 →

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
Isaiah 6:11
Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
leads to
- Isaiah 1:7
  Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
leads to
- Lamentations 5:2
  Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
- Deuteronomy 28:33
  A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- Deuteronomy 28:43
  The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
Through
Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be…
leads to
- Habakkuk 1:8
  Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.
- Zephaniah 3:3
  Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
- Ezekiel 22:27
  Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
Through
Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
leads to
- Jeremiah 50:17
  Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah