UYeremiya 4:23

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

23 Ndakhangela emhlabeni, nanko kusenyanyeni, lilubala; nasezulwini, akwabakho kukhanya kulo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the earth: Jeremiah 9:10, Genesis 1:2, Isaiah 24:19-23, Revelation 20:11

the heavens: Isaiah 5:30, Isaiah 13:10, Ezekiel 32:7, Ezekiel 32:8, Joel 2:10, Joel 2:30, Joel 2:31, Joel 3:15, Joel 3:16, Amos 8:9, Matthew 24:29, Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:24, Mark 13:25, Luke 21:25, Luke 21:26, Acts 2:19, Acts 2:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:13 - the earth Psalms 29:6 - Lebanon Psalms 104:32 - looketh Psalms 114:4 - General Isaiah 13:13 - the earth Isaiah 34:4 - all the Jeremiah 4:28 - the earth Jeremiah 7:20 - Behold Jeremiah 13:16 - before Jeremiah 18:11 - and devise Ezekiel 12:20 - General Ezekiel 38:20 - the fishes Nahum 2:10 - empty Zephaniah 1:3 - consume man Haggai 2:6 - and I Revelation 6:14 - and every Revelation 8:12 - and the third part of the sun Revelation 16:20 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I beheld the earth,.... The land of Judea, not the whole world; and this the prophet says, either in spirit, as Jerom; or in prophecy, as Kimchi; or in a visionary way; for these are not the words of God continued, as Cocceius, but of the prophet; who, by a prophetic spirit, describes the dreadful destruction of the Jewish nation, as follows:

and, lo, it was without form, and void; as the first earth or chaos was, before it was brought into form and order; the same words, "tohu" and "bohu", are used here, as in Genesis 1:2, the land of Judea now was, in the prophet's view of it, like the first earth, when darkness covered it; no grass sprung out of it, not a tree to be seen in it, and neither man nor beast as yet upon it, but all an undigested mass, and in the utmost wild disorder and confusion; and this may denote not only the natural, but the political, and ecclesiastical, disorder of the Jewish nation and state:

and the heavens, and they had no light; that were over the land of Judea;

"their lights did not shine,''

as the Targum paraphrases it; that is, the sun, moon, and stars, which were darkened by the smoke of the burning of Jerusalem; or which withdrew their light, as blushing at, and being ashamed of, the iniquities of his people, and who were unworthy of enjoying the light of them; and which this phrase may denote.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian captivity.

Jeremiah 4:23

Without form, and void - Desolate and void (see Genesis 1:2 note). The land has returned to a state of chaos (marginal reference note).

And the heavens - And upward to the heavens. The imagery is that of the last day of judgment. To Jeremiah’s vision all was as though the day of the Lord had come, and earth returned to the state in which it was before the first creative word (see 2 Peter 3:10).

Jeremiah 4:24

Moved lightly - “Reeled to and fro,” from the violence of the earthquake.

Jeremiah 4:26

The fruitful place - The Carmel Jeremiah 2:7, where the population had been most dense, and the labors of the farmer most richly rewarded, has become the wilderness.

At the presence - i. e., because of, at the command of Yahweh, and because of His anger.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 4:23. I beheld the earth, (the land,) and lo it was without form and void — תהו ובהו tohu vabohu; the very words used in Genesis to denote the formless state of the chaotic mass before God had brought it into order.