Jeremiah 10:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:20 : 20 News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss.
  • Isa 54:2 : 2 Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.
  • Lam 1:5 : 5 Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.
  • Lam 2:4-6 : 4 His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire. 5 The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah. 6 And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
  • Prov 12:7 : 7 Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.
  • Isa 49:20-22 : 20 The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place. 21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these? 22 This is the word of the Lord God: See, I will make a sign with my hand to the nations, and put up my flag for the peoples; and they will take up your sons on their beasts, and your daughters on their backs.
  • Isa 51:16 : 16 And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.

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  • Jer 4:20-21
    2 verses
    82%

    20 News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.

    21 How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?

  • Jer 10:19
    79%

    19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

  • Lam 1:12-16
    5 verses
    77%

    12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

    15 The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.

    16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

  • Job 19:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

    10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

  • Jer 10:21
    75%

    21 For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.

  • Lam 3:11
    75%

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Isa 38:12
    75%

    12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

  • Ps 120:5
    74%

    5 Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.

  • Mic 2:9
    74%

    9 The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.

  • Isa 22:4
    73%

    4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 9:19
    73%

    19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Jer 12:10
    73%

    10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

  • Job 17:11
    73%

    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • Job 19:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

    13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

  • Lam 1:20
    73%

    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • Lam 2:22
    73%

    22 As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.

  • Lam 3:18
    72%

    18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

  • Ps 31:10
    72%

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 69:20
    72%

    20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • Jer 9:2
    72%

    2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

  • Job 30:13
    72%

    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

  • Lam 1:18
    72%

    18 The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

  • Lam 2:6
    72%

    6 And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

  • Joel 1:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

    8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

  • Job 30:11
    71%

    11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

  • Ps 22:14
    71%

    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

  • Jer 8:20
    71%

    20 The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.

  • Job 10:20
    71%

    20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • Lam 3:4
    71%

    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Isa 51:19
    71%

    19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

  • Isa 49:21
    71%

    21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

  • Isa 54:2
    71%

    2 Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.

  • Ps 38:10
    71%

    10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Joel 1:17
    71%

    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Job 16:7
    71%

    7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

  • Mic 2:4
    71%

    4 In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

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    71%

    6 My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.

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    71%

    31 And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

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  • Jer 9:10
    71%

    10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

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    71%

    40 All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.