Jeremiah 4:23 - Forerunner Commentary

Jeremiah 4:23

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Jeremiah 4:23
Excerpted from: Angelic Responsibilities

In the first three chapters of the Bible, and many other places where you find the word hayah, in almost every case it denotes a condition that was different from a former condition. In other words, the earth became chaotic and it had not always been that way. The Rotherham translation of Genesis 1:2 out of the original Hebrew language is this: Now the Earth had become waste and empty. It had not always been that way. It became that way.
As in Genesis 1:2, the phrase without form and void is also found in Jeremiah 4:23, Isaiah 34:11, and in other places in the Bible, using the same Hebrew words, tohu and bohu, meaning chaotic and in confusion. And in every case, that condition is the result of a sin. So that means the earth there in Genesis 1:2 had to result in that chaotic condition as a result of sin.
Now, Isaiah tells us that God did not create the heavens and the earth in tohu, that is, in chaos. If you will turn with me to Isaiah 45 please.

Jeremiah 4:23
Excerpted from: The Gap Theory

It is the same construction that we see in Genesis 1:2, and here, it is referring to a prophecy of God's judgment on sinning Judah. The earth was not created this way, it became tohu and bohu. The Pulpit Commentary writes about this verse: "Without form and void means rather waste and wild or more literally, formless and lifeless."

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