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I saw, and, behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were fled.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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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19th Century
Anglican
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…
Baptist
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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16th Century
Protestant
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I beheld, and, lo, there was no man No people dwelling in it, as the Targum; the land was without inhabitants, they w…
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,…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet shows the effect of the destruction.
