Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thus hath the LORD said, "The whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not then have done.

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.

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.

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 marked well, and the plowed field was become waste: yea, all their cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and indignation of his wrath. 27 For thus hath the LORD said, "The whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not then have done. 28 And therefore let the earth mourn, and let the heaven be sorry above: for the things that I have purposed and taken upon me to do, shall not repent me, and I will not go from it."

Cross References

Jeremiah 5:10

"Climb up upon their walls, beat them down, but destroy them not utterly: cut off their branches because they are not the LORD's.

Jeremiah 5:18

Nevertheless, I will not then have done with you, sayeth the LORD.

Jeremiah 30:11

For I am with thee, to help thee, sayeth the LORD. And though I shall destroy all the people among whom I have scattered thee, yet will I not destroy thee, but correct thee, and that with discretion. For I know, that thou art in no wise without fault.

Jeremiah 46:28

Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, sayeth the LORD, for I am with thee: and will destroy all nations, among whom I have scattered thee. Nevertheless I will not consume thee, but chasten thee and correct thee: yea and that with discretion: neither will I spare thee as one that were faultless."

Ezekiel 11:13

Now when I preached, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, "O LORD God, wilt thou then utterly destroy all the remnant in Israel?"

Leviticus 26:44

And yet, for all that; when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not so cast them away nor my soul shall not so abhor them, that I will utterly destroy them and break mine covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

2 Chronicles 36:21

to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had her pleasure of her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath until she had fulfilled seventy years.

Isaiah 6:11-12

Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the LORD shall waste and plague the world, he shall make the face of the earth desolate, and scatter abroad the inhabiters thereof.

Isaiah 24:3-13

Yea miserably shall the world be wasted and clean destroyed. For the LORD hath so determined in himself.

Jeremiah 4:7

For the spoiler of the Gentiles is broken up from his place, as a lion out of his den, that he may make the land waste, and destroy the cities, so that no man may dwell therein.

Jeremiah 7:34

And as for the voice of mirth and gladness of the cities of Judah and Jerusalem; the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride: I will make them cease, for the land shall be desolate."

Jeremiah 12:11-12

They have laid it waste: and now that it is waste, it sigheth unto me. Yea, the whole land lieth waste, and no man regardeth it.

Jeremiah 18:16

Wherethrough they have brought their land into an everlasting wilderness and scorn: So that whosoever traveleth thereby, shall be abashed, and wag their heads.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will stretch mine hand out upon them, and will make the land waste: So that it shall lie desolate and void from the wilderness of Diblath forth, through all their habitations: to learn them for to know, that I am the LORD.'"

Ezekiel 33:28

For I will make the land desolate and waste, and the pomp of her strength shall come to an end. The mountains in Israel shall be so waste that no man shall travel thereby.

Amos 9:8-9

Behold, the eyes of the LORD are upon the realm that sinneth, to root it clean out of the earth: Nevertheless I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, sayeth the LORD.

Romans 9:27-29

But Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet shall a remnant be saved.

Romans 11:1-7

I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For even I verily am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, and of the tribe of Benjamin;

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