Jeremiah 10:20

Jeremiah chapter 10 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

Context

v.19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.

v.20This passage

v.21For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 49:20
The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
Jeremiah 4:20
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.
Job 7:8
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Lamentations 2:4
He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.
Isaiah 54:2
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.