Jeremiah 4:20

World English Bible (2000)

Destruction on 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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  • Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
  • Ps 72:19 : 19 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
  • Isa 13:6 : 6 Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
  • Isa 33:20 : 20 Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won't be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
  • Isa 47:9 : 9 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
  • Isa 54:2 : 2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
  • Jer 4:6 : 6 Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."
  • Jer 10:19-20 : 19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it. 20 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.
  • Jer 17:18 : 18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
  • Lam 2:6-9 : 6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. 7 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly. 8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together. 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
  • Lam 3:47 : 47 Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
  • Ezek 7:25-26 : 25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
  • Ezek 14:21 : 21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
  • Joel 1:15 : 15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
  • Hab 3:7 : 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  • 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
  • Exod 33:5 : 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"
  • Lev 26:18 : 18 "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
  • Lev 26:21 : 21 "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
  • Lev 26:24 : 24 then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
  • Lev 26:28 : 28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
  • Num 16:21 : 21 "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"
  • Num 16:45 : 45 "Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!" They fell on their faces.

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