Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
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 anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] 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 calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Exodus 33:5
Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"
Leviticus 26:18
"'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:21
"'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:24
then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:28
then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Numbers 16:21
"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"
Numbers 16:45
"Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" They fell on their faces.
Psalm 72:19
Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
Isaiah 13:6
Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 33:20
Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won't be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will 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; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
Isaiah 54:2
"Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
Jeremiah 4:6
Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."
Jeremiah 10:19-20
Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
Jeremiah 17:18
Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
Lamentations 2:6-9
He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Lamentations 3:47
Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
Ezekiel 7:25-26
Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
Ezekiel 14:21
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
Matthew 10:28
Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,