until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
Parallel translations
- WEB And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.
- KJV And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
- NKJV The Lord has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
- NASB The Lord has completely removed people, And there are many forsaken places in the midst of the land.
- NLT until the Lord has sent everyone away, and the entire land of Israel lies deserted.
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Quick answer
The Lord will send the people far away, leaving many forsaken places in the land. It foretells the exile that will empty Judah of its inhabitants.
Overview
Removing the people 'far away' anticipates the deportations carried out by Assyria and Babylon. The desolation completes the judgment described in the previous verse. Yet this emptying is not the end of the story, for God preserves a remnant, as the next verse reveals.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 4:29Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
- Deut 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- 2 Kgs 25:11Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.
- Jer 12:7I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
- 2 Kgs 25:21There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
- Jer 15:4I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
- Rom 11:1–2I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Lam 5:20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
- Isa 26:15You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.
- Jer 52:28–30These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
- Rom 11:15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
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