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Jeremiah 4:20
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Jeremiah 4:20
20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
20Destruction vpon destruction is cried, for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtaines in a moment.
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Jeremiah 4:20
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
Destruction
Ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or the calamity and loss produced by destroying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Entire, complete, or undivided; also sound or restored to health, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Plundered; pillaged; corrupted; rendered useless.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In an unexpected manner; unexpectedly; hastily; without preparation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A very short time; also weight or importance.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
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Open the full verse study7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
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Open the full verse study9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
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Open the full verse study25Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
26Mischief 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.
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Open the full verse study15Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
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Open the full verse study28And 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.
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Open the full verse study5For 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.
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Open the full verse study21For 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?
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Open the full verse study6¶ Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
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Open the full verse study20Look 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.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20My 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.
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Open the full verse study18Let 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.
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Open the full verse study47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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Open the full verse study18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
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Open the full verse study21¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
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Open the full verse study7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
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Open the full verse study9But 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.
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Open the full verse study2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
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Open the full verse study6Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
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Open the full verse study6And 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.
7The 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.
8The 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.
9Her 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.
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Open the full verse study28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
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Open the full verse study21Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
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Open the full verse study45Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
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Open the full verse study19And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
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