And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.
- BSB until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
- 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 4:29The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
- Deut 28:64And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
- 2 Kgs 25:11Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
- Jer 12:7I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
- 2 Kgs 25:21And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
- Jer 15:4And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
- Rom 11:1–2I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Lam 5:20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
- Isa 26:15Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
- Jer 52:28–30This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
- Rom 11:15For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
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