Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 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
Topics
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 convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the ram's horn, the alarm of war. 20 Ruin on ruin is cried; for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are laid waste, my curtains in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the banner and hear the sound of the ram's horn?
Cross References
Psalm 42:7
Deep calls to deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and Your billows have gone over me.
Exodus 33:5
And Jehovah had said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people. I will come up into the midst of you in a moment, and I will consume you. And now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.
Leviticus 26:18
And if you will not yet listen to Me for all this, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:21
And if you walk contrary to Me, and will not listen to Me, I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:24
then I will walk contrary to you and will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:28
then I will walk contrary to you also in fury. And I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Numbers 16:21
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, so that I may devour them in a moment.
Numbers 16:45
Get away from this congregation so that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Psalm 72:19
And blessed be His glorious name forever; and all the earth is filled with His glory! Amen and Amen.
Isaiah 13:6
Howl! For the day of Jehovah is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 33:20
Look on Zion, the city of our holy meetings; your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet home, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, nor shall any of its cords be broken.
Isaiah 47:9
But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come on you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great power of your enchantments.
Isaiah 54:2
Make the place of your tent larger, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings. Do not spare, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes;
Jeremiah 4:6
Set up the banner toward Zion; flee for safety and do not wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great ruin.
Jeremiah 10:19-20
Woe to me for my breaking! My wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a malady, and I must bear it.
Jeremiah 17:18
Let those who persecute me be ashamed, but do not let me be ashamed; let them be afraid, but do not let me be afraid. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double breaking.
Lamentations 2:6-9
And He violated His booth like a garden, and destroyed His meeting places. Jehovah caused the meeting places and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and He despised the king and the priest in the fury of His anger.
Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a pit have come to us, shame and ruin.
Ezekiel 7:25-26
Ruin comes; and they shall seek peace, but none shall be.
Ezekiel 14:21
For so says the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send My four evil judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the destroying beast, and the plague, to cut off man and beast from it.
Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand, and it shall come as a ruin from the Almighty.
Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan under calamity; the curtains of the land of Midian trembled.
Matthew 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,