The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
Parallel translations
- WEB The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
- KJV The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
- NKJV The boar out of the woods uproots it, And the wild beast of the field devours it.
- NASB A boar from the forest eats it away, And whatever moves in the field feeds on it.
- NLT The wild boar from the forest devours it, and the wild animals feed on it.
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Quick answer
Wild boars and beasts now ravage and devour the unprotected vine. It vividly depicts invading enemies destroying the nation.
Overview
The boar and wild animals represent hostile nations that trample and consume defenseless Israel once God's protection is gone. The imagery underscores the helplessness of a people left exposed by divine discipline. Such devastation drives the urgent plea for God to return and rescue His vine.
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Cross-references · 10
- Jer 5:6Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
- Jer 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
- 2 Chr 36:1–23Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
- Jer 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
- Jer 52:12–14On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
- Jer 52:7Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
- 2 Kgs 24:1–20During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
- Jer 39:1–3In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.
- 2 Kgs 18:1–19In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.
- 2 Chr 32:1–33After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
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