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
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.
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.
Themes
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Interlinear
Sheber
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 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;