Jeremiah 4:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רָאִ֕יתִי וְהִנֵּ֖ה אֵ֣ין הָאָדָ֑ם וְכָל־ע֥וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם נָדָֽדוּ׃

Transliteration

Rāʾîtî and hinnēh ʾēyn the ʾādām; and all ʿôp the šāmayim nādādû

Grammar Details

*Rāʾîtî*: qal perfect, 1st singular - I saw/looked
*hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold/look
*ʾēyn*: particle of negation - there is no
*ʾādām*: masculine singular noun - man/mankind
*ʿôp*: masculine singular noun, construct - birds of
*šāmayim*: masculine plural noun - heavens/sky
*nādādû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they fled/wandered

Word Meanings

*Rāʾîtî*: saw/looked at/observed
*hinnēh*: behold/look/see
*ʾādām*: man/mankind/humanity
*ʿôp*: birds/flying creatures
*šāmayim*: heavens/sky/firmament
*nādādû*: fled/wandered/moved away

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Jer 9:10 : 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.
Jer 12:4 : 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Zeph 1:2-3 : 2 I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah. 3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah.

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