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Jeremiah 4:27

What does Jeremiah 4:27 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 4:27 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

For thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.

Context

v.26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, and before his fierce anger.

v.27This passage

v.28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

Cross references

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

  • Ezekiel 6:14

    And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

  • Isaiah 24:3

    The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.

  • Isaiah 6:11

    Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

  • Ezekiel 33:28

    And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.

  • Isaiah 24:1

    Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

  • Jeremiah 4:7

    A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

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