Jeremiah 4:23
I beheld, The earth; and lo! it was waste and wild,—The heavens also and their light was not:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
In Context
24I beheld, The mountains, and lo! they were trembling,—And all the hills, had been violently moved:
Cross References
Isaiah 5:30Yea he will growl at him in that day, like the growling of the sea,—Though he look hard for the land, lo! the darkness of distress, Yea the light, hath grown dark in its clouds!
Isaiah 24:19The earth breaketh, breaketh,—The earth crasheth, crasheth, The earth tottereth, tottereth;
Ezekiel 32:7And when I quench thee, I will cover the heavens, And obscure their stars,— The sun—with a cloud, will I cover, And the moon shall not shed her light;
Joel 2:30And I will set forth wonders in the heavens, and in the earth,—blood, and fire, and columns of smoke:
Amos 8:9Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will cause the sun to go in at high noon,—and will darken the earth on a day of brightness.!
Matthew 24:35The heaven and the earth, shall pass away, but, my words, shall, in nowise, pass away.
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 →