And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of 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 4:29Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
- Deut 28:64Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
- 2 Kgs 25:11Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
- Jer 12:7“I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
- 2 Kgs 25:21The king of Babylon attacked them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
- Jer 15:4I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the 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 ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Lam 5:20Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?
- Isa 26:15You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.
- Jer 52:28–30This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
- Rom 11:15For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
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