Jeremiah 4:23 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ [In a vision Jeremiah sees Judah laid waste by conquest and captivity.] I looked at the land, and behold, it was [as at the time of creation] waste and vacant (void); and at the heavens, and they had no light.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Common English Bible

²³ I looked at the earth, and it was without shape or form; at the heavens and there was no light.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ I gazed upon the earth, and behold, it was empty and brought to nothing. And I gazed upon the heavens, but there was no light in them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ I beheld the earth, and lo it was void and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them.

English Standard Version 2016

²³ I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

Jeremiah 4:23 Cross References

Genesis 1:2

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Isaiah 5:30

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Jeremiah 2:12

Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

Lamentations 3:2

He hath led me, and brought me Into darkness, but not into light.

Joel 2:10

The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

Amos 8:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

Zechariah 14:6

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

Matthew 24:29

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Revelation 20:11

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.