“I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 4 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.