Jeremiah 4:25
New Living Translation
25 I looked, and all the people were gone.
All the birds of the sky had flown away.
Zephaniah 1:2-3
New Living Translation
Coming Judgment against Judah
2 “I will sweep away everything
from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
3 “I will sweep away people and animals alike.
I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea.
I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble,[a]
and I will wipe humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.
Footnotes
- 1:3 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
Jeremiah 12:4
New Living Translation
4 How long must this land mourn?
Even the grass in the fields has withered.
The wild animals and birds have disappeared
because of the evil in the land.
For the people have said,
“The Lord doesn’t see what’s ahead for us!”
Hosea 4:3
New Living Translation
3 That is why your land is in mourning,
and everyone is wasting away.
Even the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea are disappearing.
Jeremiah 9:10
New Living Translation
10 I will weep for the mountains
and wail for the wilderness pastures.
For they are desolate and empty of life;
the lowing of cattle is heard no more;
the birds and wild animals have all fled.
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