Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment.
New American Standard Bible
For the
Suddenly my
My curtains in an instant.
King James Version
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Holman Bible
because the whole land is destroyed.
Suddenly my tents are destroyed,
my tent curtains, in a moment.
International Standard Version
Disaster upon disaster is proclaimed, for the entire land is devastated. Suddenly, my tent is destroyed, in a moment my curtains.
American Standard Version
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.
Amplified
News of one [terrible] disaster comes close after another,
For the whole land is devastated;
Suddenly my tents are spoiled and destroyed,
My [tent] curtains [ruined] in a moment.
Bible in Basic English
News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.
Julia Smith Translation
Breaking upon breaking was called; for all the land was laid waste: suddenly were my tents laid waste, my curtains in a moment
King James 2000
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is plundered: suddenly are my tents plundered, and my curtains in a moment.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, for all of the land is devastated. Suddenly my tents are devastated, my tent curtains in a moment.
Modern King James verseion
Ruin on ruin is cried; for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are laid waste, my curtains in a moment.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They cry murder upon murder; the whole land shall perish. Immediately my tents were destroyed, and my hangings, in the twinkling of an eye.
NET Bible
I see one destruction after another taking place, so that the whole land lies in ruins. I see our tents suddenly destroyed, their curtains torn down in a mere instant.
New Heart English Bible
Destruction on destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.
The Emphasized Bible
Breach upon breach, they cry, For ruined, is all the land, - Suddenly, are ruined my tents, In a moment, my curtains!
Webster
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste; suddenly are my tents ruined, and my curtains in a moment.
World English Bible
Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.
Youngs Literal Translation
Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment -- my curtains.
Themes
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Sheber
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 4:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
19 My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Cross References
Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
Exodus 33:5
Now Jehovah had said to Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: in one moment I will come up into the midst of thee and will consume thee. And now put off thine ornaments from thee, and I will know what I will do unto thee.
Leviticus 26:18
And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins,
Leviticus 26:21
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:24
then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.
Leviticus 26:28
then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven-fold for your sins.
Numbers 16:21
Separate yourselves from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them in a moment.
Numbers 16:45
Get you up from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them in a moment. And they fell on their faces.
Psalm 72:19
And blessed be his glorious name for ever! and let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen, and Amen.
Isaiah 13:6
Howl, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; it cometh as destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 33:20
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be pulled up, neither shall any of its cords be broken;
Isaiah 47:9
yet these two things shall come upon thee in a moment, in one day, loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon thee in full measure for the multitude of thy sorceries, for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Isaiah 54:2
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
Jeremiah 4:6
Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Jeremiah 10:19-20
Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is my grief, and I will bear it.
Jeremiah 17:18
Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and break them with a double breaking.
Lamentations 2:6-9
And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest.
Lamentations 3:47
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
Ezekiel 7:25-26
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, but there shall be none.
Ezekiel 14:21
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
Matthew 10:28
And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who shall pay the penalty of everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his might,