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Jeremiah 4:20

Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

Cross References

  1. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
  2. For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
  3. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
  4. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
  5. Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
  6. Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
  7. Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
  8. Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
  9. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
  10. Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
  11. Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
  12. But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
  13. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
  14. Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
  15. Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. 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.
  16. Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
  17. And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
  18. Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
  19. Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
  20. For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
  21. Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
  22. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
  23. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
  24. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;