Jeremiah 4:23 NASB,NIV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:23-31

Jeremiah’s Vision Of The Aftermath Of The Invasion (Jeremiah 4:23-31 ). In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its destruction, as he, as it were, looks around and sees all the devastation wrought by it. It would be as though the whole of the heavens and earth were affected, the earth waste and void (tohu wa bohu) as it had been before God worked on it after the initial creation (Genesis 1:2), the heavens devoid of light. It would be as though God’s fashioning of the world... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:23-31

Jeremiah 4:23-Obadiah : . The Vision of Desolation ( Jeremiah 4:23-Ezekiel :) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before creation ( mg.) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the very mountains have no longer stability; the denizens of earth and air are gone; the garden-land is wilderness; the cities are overthrown ( cf. Jeremiah 1:10). Jeremiah has actually seen all this in some ecstatic state, just as George Fox saw its opposite, the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 4:23

I beheld; either I Jeremiah saw all this in a vision, or I fancied and framed such an idea of it in my mind; it seems to be impressed upon my thoughts graphically, as in a map, in such a rueful manner; for in this and the three following verses he doth, as one transported with sorrow, elegantly and hyperbolically describe the phaenomenon, face or appearance of it. It was without form and void; the land was so squalid and so ruined, that he fancieth it to be like the first chaos, for which... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 4:1-31

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology of the chapter, Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History as in chap. 3. 1. Geographical References. Jeremiah 4:5. “Defenced cities.” Some existed in Canaan before Israelites took possession (Numbers 13:28). Solomon erected others:—Tadmor, Gezer, Hazor, Bethlehem, Megiddo, &c. (1 Kings 9:15-19). But Jerusalem, fortified by David (2 Samuel 5:7; 2 Samuel 5:9-10), was the chief stronghold of the nation (Jeremiah 4:6). When Titus,... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Jeremiah 4:23

without form and void Cf. Genesis 1:2. "Without form and void" describes the condition of the earth as the result of judgment ; Jeremiah 4:24-26; Isaiah 24:1 which overthrew the primal order of Genesis 1:1. SCOFIELD'S "GAP" THEORY! For Another Point of View: See Topic 401495 (Gap Theory) For Another Point of View: See Topic 8756 read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:1-31

Chapter 4But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth ( Jeremiah 4:1-2 ),It won't just be saying it as a phrase. And the people were still saying, "Oh, the Lord lives. Praise the Lord, the Lord lives!" But it was meaningless. Just like a lot of people today who go around saying, "Praise the Lord, praise the Lord!" It's... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 4:1-31

Jeremiah 4:3 . Break up your fallow ground. Hebrews ניר nir, novale; make new land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word. The deer that strays in the wilds and wastes of the forest, is an emblem of the unregenerate state of man. The old rabbins used to say, that the Spirit of prophecy was a rough spirit. Truly, soft words will not break up the heart where self-love has ever slumbered, and bitter weeds have ever... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 4:19-26

Jeremiah 4:19-26I am pained at my very heart.The prophet’s lamentations over his people’s doomI. The complaint or lamentation itself.1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man.(1) The secrecy of it, the mind and soul being inward and hidden.(2) The mind receives and digests the thoughts.(3) The mind is the mother of thoughts, conceiving and generating them.2. The grief of those parts.(1) God need not go far for the punishment of wicked men; He can do it from within themselves; can punish a... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 4:23

Jer 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light. Ver. 23. I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void. ] Tohu vabohit as Gen 1:2 sightless and shapeless. Sermo est hyperbolicus, all was in a confusion. What shall it, then, be at the last day? read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 4:23

the earth: Jeremiah 9:10, Genesis 1:2, Isaiah 24:19-:, Revelation 20:11 the heavens: Isaiah 5:30, Isaiah 13:10, Ezekiel 32:7, Ezekiel 32:8, Joel 2:10, Joel 2:30, Joel 2:31, Joel 3:15, Joel 3:16, Amos 8:9, Matthew 24:29, Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:24, Mark 13:25, Luke 21:25, Luke 21:26, Acts 2:19, Acts 2:20 Reciprocal: Genesis 6:13 - the earth Psalms 29:6 - Lebanon Psalms 104:32 - looketh Psalms 114:4 - General Isaiah 13:13 - the earth Isaiah 34:4 - all the Jeremiah 4:28 - the earth Jeremiah... read more