Jeremiah 10:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

My tent is ruined, and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are no more: there is no one to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are broken. My children have left me—they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    My tabernacle is destroyed, and all my coardes are broken. My children are gone fro me, ad can no where be founde. Now haue I none to sprede out my tente, or to set vp my hanginges.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    My tabernacle is destroyed, and all my coardes are broken: my children are gone from me, and are not: there is none to spread out my tent any more, and to set vp my curtaines.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    My tabernacle is destroyed, and all my cordes are broken, my chyldren are gone fro me, & can no where be founde: Nowe haue I none to spreade out my tent, nor to set vp my hanginges.

  • Authorized 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    My tent hath been spoiled, And all my cords have been broken, My sons have gone out from me, and they are not, There is none stretching out any more my tent, And raising up my curtains.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are no more: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:20 : 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is ruined: suddenly my tents are ruined, and my curtains in a moment.
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.
  • Isa 54:2 : 2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: do not spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes;
  • Lam 1:5 : 5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
  • Lam 2:4-6 : 4 He has bent His bow like an enemy: He stood with His right hand as an adversary, and killed all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: He poured out His fury like fire. 5 The Lord was like an enemy: He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces: He has destroyed His strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 6 And He has violently taken away His tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: He has destroyed His places of the assembly: the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest.
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
  • Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.
  • Isa 49:20-22 : 20 The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other, shall say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for me: give place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and moving to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been? 22 Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
  • Isa 51:16 : 16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, 'You are my people.'

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    79%

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    75%

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    75%

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    74%

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    73%

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    73%

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    72%

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    72%

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