Jeremiah 10:20
My tent 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.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more: thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Isaiah 49:20The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
Isaiah 51:18There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
Jeremiah 4:20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Jeremiah 31:15Thus saith the LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
Lamentations 2:4He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his fury like fire.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:18-25
Lamentation of Judah; Sovereignty of Divine Providence; Prophetic Imprecations. ( b. c. 606.) 17 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. 18 For thus saith the Lord , Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so. 19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are… Read the whole commentary →