A boar from the forest eats it away, And whatever moves in the field feeds on 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.
- BSB The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
- NKJV The boar out of the woods uproots it, And the wild beast of the field devours 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Jer 5:6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.
- Jer 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
- 2 Chr 36:1–23Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.
- Jer 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
- Jer 52:12–14Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.
- Jer 52:7Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,
- 2 Kgs 24:1–20In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
- Jer 39:1–3When Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.
- 2 Kgs 18:1–19Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Chr 32:1–33After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.
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