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The Horror of Total Solitude
The vision of a land with "no man" and no birds highlights the absolute desolation caused by judgment. Commentators describe this as a "horrible sense of solitude." The absence of even the birds, who fled from the war and resulting famine, shows that the consequences of sin affect every part of creation, leaving behind an empty, lifeless world.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 4:23–26
18th Century
Theologian
In four verses, each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in vision the desolate condition of Judea during the Babylonian captivity.
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Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 4:25
19th Century
Bishop
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…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 4:24–29
19th Century
Preacher
Now all this did happen. It all came to pass. Palestine, the glorious garden of God, was made as dreary as a wilderness. It is not much better now.…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 4:23–26
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet in this passage elaborates in highly metaphorical language on the terror of God’s vengeance, so that he might rouse the Jews, who were …
John Gill
On Jeremiah 4:25
17th Century
Pastor
And I beheld, and, lo, there was no man No people dwelling in it, as the Targum; the land was without inhabitants, they w…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 4:19–31
17th Century
Minister
The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion.
Compared with what it was,…