Jeremiah 4:27
For the LORD says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfill the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Isaiah 17:6Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says the LORD, the God of Israel.
Isaiah 24:3The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for the LORD has spoken this word.
Jeremiah 5:10“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.
Jeremiah 7:34Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 4:20-31
Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 620.) 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and… Read the whole commentary →