Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.
New American Standard Bible
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Yet I will
King James Version
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Holman Bible
For this is what the Lord says:
but I will not finish it off.
International Standard Version
For this is what the LORD says: "The entire land will be devastated, but I won't completely destroy it.
American Standard Version
For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
Amplified
Therefore says the Lord,
“The whole land shall be a desolation,
Yet I will not cause total destruction.
Darby Translation
For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.
Julia Smith Translation
For thus said Jehovah, All the earth shall be a desert; and I will not make a completion.
King James 2000
For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation.
Modern King James verseion
For so Jehovah has said, The whole land shall be desolate, yet I will not make a full end.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thus hath the LORD said, "The whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not then have done.
NET Bible
All this will happen because the Lord said, "The whole land will be desolate; however, I will not completely destroy it.
New Heart English Bible
For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
The Emphasized Bible
For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become - Nevertheless a full end, will I not make.
Webster
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
Youngs Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 4:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
26 Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath. 27 For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete. 28 The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:10
Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
Jeremiah 5:18
But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.
Jeremiah 30:11
For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.
Jeremiah 46:28
Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.
Ezekiel 11:13
Now while I was saying these things, death came to Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah. Then falling down on my face and crying out with a loud voice, I said, Ah, Lord! will you put an end to all the rest of Israel?
Leviticus 26:44
But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God.
2 Chronicles 36:21
So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.
Isaiah 6:11-12
Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,
Isaiah 24:1
See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.
Isaiah 24:3-13
The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.
Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.
Jeremiah 7:34
And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.
Jeremiah 12:11-12
They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.
Jeremiah 18:16
Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.
Ezekiel 6:14
And my hand will be stretched out against them, making the land waste and unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah, through all their living-places: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 33:28
And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.
Amos 9:8-9
See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.
Romans 9:27-29
And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:
Romans 11:1-7
So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.