Jeremiah 4:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Disaster overtakes disaster; the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ News of one violent disaster and calamity comes close after another, for the whole land is laid waste; suddenly are my tents spoiled and destroyed, and my [tent] curtains ruined in a moment.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Disaster follows disaster; the whole land is ruined. Suddenly, my tents are destroyed, my shelter in a moment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Destruction upon destruction has been called forth. And the entire earth has been devastated. My tabernacles have been destroyed suddenly, and my tents in an instant.

Jeremiah 4:20 Cross References

Psalm 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your torrents; all your waves and your billows have gone over me.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Matthew 10:28

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Joel 1:15

Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Ezekiel 14:21

Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!

Lamentations 3:47

panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let my persecutors be shamed, but do not let me be shamed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!

Isaiah 33:20

Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, an immovable tent whose stakes will never be pulled up and none of whose ropes will be broken.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty!

Leviticus 26:24

then I, too, will continue hostile to you: I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:21

“If you continue hostile to me and will not obey me, I will continue to plague you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:18

And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Exodus 33:5

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, and I will decide what to do to you.’ ”

Habakkuk 3:7

I saw the tents of Cushan under affliction; the tent curtains of the land of Midian trembled.

Jeremiah 4:6

Raise a standard toward Zion; flee for safety; do not delay, for I am bringing evil from the north and a great destruction.

Isaiah 54:2

Enlarge the site of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

Isaiah 47:9

both these things shall come upon you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.

Psalm 72:19

Blessed be his glorious name forever; may his glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen.

Numbers 16:45

“Get away from this congregation, so that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.

Numbers 16:21

“Separate yourselves from this congregation, so that I may consume them in a moment.”

Leviticus 26:28

I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.

Isaiah 15:5

My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation, yet I will not make a full end.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no one lays it to heart.

Jeremiah 9:18

let them quickly raise a dirge over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.