Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For thus said Jehovah, All the earth shall be a desert; and I will not make a completion.

New American Standard Bible

For thus says the Lord,
“The whole land shall be a desolation,
Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

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:

The whole land will be a desolation,
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.

Bible in Basic English

For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.

Darby Translation

For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

yet will I not make

Usage: 0

Context Readings

An Invasion From The North

26 I saw, and behold, Carmel a desert, and all its cities were broken down from the face of Jehovah, from the face of the heat of his anger. 27 For thus said Jehovah, All the earth shall be a desert; and I will not make a completion. 28 For this, shall the earth mourn, and the heavens became dark from above: because I spake, I purposed, I lamented not, and I will not turn back from it

Cross References

Jeremiah 5:10

Go ye up upon her walls and destroy; and ye shall not make a completion: remove her twigs, for they are not to Jehovah.

Jeremiah 5:18

And also in those days, says Jehovah, I will not make with you a completion.

Jeremiah 30:11

For I am with thee, says Jehovah, to serve thee: for I will make a completion to all nations where I scattered thee there, but with thee I will not make a completion: and I corrected thee for judgment, and acquitting, I will not let thee go unpunished.

Jeremiah 46:28

Thou shalt not fear, O my servant Jacob, says Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a completion among all nations where I thrust thee away there: and I will not make a completion with thee, and I will correct thee for judgment; and acquitting, I will not let thee go unpunished.

Ezekiel 11:13

And it will be as I prophesied, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, died. And I shall fall upon my face and cry with a great voice, and saying, Ah. Lord Jehovah, thou makest a completion with the remnant of Israel.

Leviticus 26:44

And yet also this in their being in the land of their enemies, I did not reject them, and I did not abhor them, to cut them off, and to break my covenant with them: for I Jehovah their God.

2 Chronicles 36:21

To fill up the word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, till the land delighted in her Sabbaths: all the days she was laid waste she rested, to complete seventy years.

Isaiah 6:11-12

And saying, How long, O Lord? And he will say, Till when the cities were laid waste from not being inhabited, and the houses from not a man, and the land shall be laid waste with desolation.

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, Jehovah emptying the earth and making it waste, and subverting its face, and scattering its inhabitants.

Isaiah 24:3-13

Being emptied, the land shall be emptied: and being plundered, it shall be plundered: for Jehovah spake this word.

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion came up from his thicket, and destroying, he broke up the nations; he went forth from his place to set thy land for a desolation; thy cities shall be laid waste from none inhabiting.

Jeremiah 7:34

And I caused to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be for a desolation.

Jeremiah 12:11-12

Setting her for a desolation, she mourned to me; all the land was set a desolation, for no man put upon his heart

Jeremiah 18:16

To set their land for a desolation, eternal hissings; every one passing over it shall be astonished and shall shake with his head.

Ezekiel 6:14

And I stretched forth my hand upon them, and I gave the land a desolation and an astonishment from the desert of Diblath, in all their dwellings: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel 33:28

And I gave the land a desolation and an amazement, and I caused the pride of her strength to cease; and the mountains of Israel were desolate from none passing through.

Amos 9:8-9

Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah upon the sinning kingdom, and I destroyed it from the face of the earth; only that destroying, I will not destroy the house of Jacob, says Jehovah.

Romans 9:27-29

And Esaias cries for Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:

Romans 11:1-7

I say then, Has God rejected his people It may not be. For I also am an Israelite, of Abraham's seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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