to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Jeremiah 4:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation, yet I will not make a full end. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For thus says the Lord: The whole land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a full and complete end of it. [Jer. 5:10, 18; 30:11; 46:28.] American Standard Version (1901) For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end. Common English Bible The LORD proclaims: The whole earth will become a desolation, but I will not destroy it completely. Catholic Public Domain Version For thus says the Lord: "All the earth will be desolate, but I will not yet bring about its consummation. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy. |
to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the Lord God of Israel.
Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. All who pass by it are horrified and shake their heads.
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you; I will make an end of all the nations among which I scattered you, but of you I will not make an end. I will chastise you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Disaster overtakes disaster; the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.
A lion has gone up from its thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
So my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as they still are today.
As for you, have no fear, my servant Jacob, says the Lord, for I am with you. I will make an end of all the nations among which I have banished you, but I will not make an end of you! I will chastise you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but do not make a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the Lord’s.
But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not make a full end of you.
And I will bring to an end the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice of the bride and bridegroom in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, for the land shall become a waste.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; a clamor was raised in the house of the Lord as on a day of festival.
Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord God! You are finishing off the remnant of Israel!”
Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make an end of them in the wilderness.
I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and its proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through.
I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, throughout all their settlements, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God,
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; in the fire of his passion the whole earth shall be consumed, for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.