Parallel Verses

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

New American Standard Bible

Disaster on disaster is proclaimed,
For the whole land is devastated;
Suddenly my tents are devastated,
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

Disaster after disaster is reported
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.

Darby Translation

Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are 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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
is cried
קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

for the whole land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

is spoiled
שׁדד 
Shadad 
Usage: 57

פּתאם פּתאום 
Pith'owm 
Usage: 25

are my tents
אהל 
'ohel 
Usage: 345

שׁדד 
Shadad 
Usage: 57

and my curtains
יריעה 
Y@riy`ah 
Usage: 54

References

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

An Invasion From The North

19 My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war. 20 Breaking upon breaking was called; for all the land was laid waste: suddenly were my tents laid waste, my curtains in a moment 21 How long shall I see the signal, shall I hear the voice of the trumpet?

Cross References

Psalm 42:7

Deep calling to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.

Exodus 33:5

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, Ye are a people of a hard neck: one moment I will come up in the midst of thee, and finish thee: and now bring down thy ornaments from thee, and I shall know what I shall do to thee.

Leviticus 26:18

And if yet these ye will not hear to me, I added to chastise you seven times for your sins.

Leviticus 26:21

And if ye shall go hostile with me, and shall not be willing to hear to me, and I added upon you seven blows for your sins.

Leviticus 26:24

And I went also hostile with you, and I struck you, also I, seven for your sins.

Leviticus 26:28

And I went hostile with you in anger; and I chastised you, I also, seven for your sins.

Numbers 16:21

Separate yourselves from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them as in a moment,

Numbers 16:45

Lift up yourselves from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them as in a moment. And they will fall upon their faces.

Psalm 72:19

And praised be the name of his glory forever; and his glory shall fill all the earth. Amen and Amen.

Isaiah 13:6

Pipe ye, for the day of Jehovah draws near; as desolation shall it come from the Almighty.

Isaiah 33:20

Behold Zion the city of our appointment: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet dwelling, the tent shall not remove; its pegs shall not be pulled up forever, and none of its cords shall be broken.

Isaiah 47:9

And these two shall come to thee suddenly, in one day, bereavement and widowhood: as finished they came upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and in the great numbers of thy enchantments.

Isaiah 54:2

Enlarge the place of thy tent, stretch forth the hangings of thy dwellings; thou shalt not spare; lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy pegs.

Jeremiah 4:6

Lift up the signal of Zion: save ye by flight, ye shall not stand: for I bring evil from the north, and a great breaking.

Jeremiah 10:19-20

Wo to me for my breaking! my blow was sickly; and I said, Surely this a sickness, and I will bear it.

Jeremiah 17:18

They pursuing me shall be ashamed, and I shall not be ashamed: they shall be dismayed, and I shall not be dismayed: bring upon them the evil day, and break them with a double breaking.

Lamentations 2:6-9

And he will tear away as a garden his dwelling: he destroyed his appointment: Jehovah caused to forget the appointment in Zion, and the Sabbath, and he will despise in the wrath of his anger the king and the priest.

Lamentations 3:47

Fear and a snare were to us, desolation and breaking

Ezekiel 7:25-26

And terror came, and they sought peace, and none.

Ezekiel 14:21

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Also if I sent my four evil judgments, sword and famine, and the evil beast, and death to Jerusalem, to cut off from it man and cattle?

Joel 1:15

Alas! for the day: for the day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Habakkuk 3:7

I saw the tents of Cushan under vanity: the curtains of the land of strife shall be moved.

Matthew 10:28

And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

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