Jeremiah 10:20

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:20 : 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
  • Isa 54:2 : 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.
  • Lam 1:5 : 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.
  • Lam 2:4-6 : 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. 5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
  • Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.
  • Isa 49:20-22 : 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. 21 Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they? 22 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
  • Isa 51:16 : 16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

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

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  • Jer 10:19
    79%

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

  • Lam 1:12-16
    5 verses
    77%

    12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

    15The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

    16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

  • Job 19:9-10
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    76%

    9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

    10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

  • Jer 10:21
    75%

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

  • Lam 3:11
    75%

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • Isa 38:12
    75%

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Ps 120:5
    74%

    5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

  • Mic 2:9
    74%

    9The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.

  • Isa 22:4
    73%

    4Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 9:19
    73%

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • Jer 12:10
    73%

    10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Job 17:11
    73%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

  • Job 19:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

    13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

  • Lam 1:20
    73%

    20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • Lam 2:22
    73%

    22Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

  • Lam 3:18
    72%

    18And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

  • Ps 31:10
    72%

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 69:20
    72%

    20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

  • Jer 9:2
    72%

    2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  • Job 30:13
    72%

    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.

  • Lam 1:18
    72%

    18Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

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    72%

    6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

  • Joel 1:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

    8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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    71%

    11For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.

  • Ps 22:14
    71%

    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

  • Jer 8:20
    71%

    20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

  • Job 10:20
    71%

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Lam 3:4
    71%

    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • Isa 51:19
    71%

    19These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

  • Isa 49:21
    71%

    21Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

  • Isa 54:2
    71%

    2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

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    71%

    10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • Joel 1:17
    71%

    17The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Job 16:7
    71%

    7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

  • Mic 2:4
    71%

    4In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove [it] from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.

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    6My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place.

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    71%

    31Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

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  • Jer 9:10
    71%

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    71%

    40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.