Jeremiah 4:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

Jeremiah 4:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
2 Thessalonians 1:9
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Ezekiel 7:25-26
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. …
Joel 1:15
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Matthew 10:28
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.

Topics

Archery Armies Battle Condescension of God Curtains Hangings Israel, Prophecies Concerning Nation

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-31)

The prophet is here in an agony, and cries out like one upon the rack of pain with some acute distemper, or as a woman in travail. The expressions are very pathetic and moving, enough to melt a heart of stone into compassion: My bowels! my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; and yet well, and in health himself, and nothing ails him. Note, A good man, in such a bad world as this is, cannot but be…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Destruction ... cried--Breach upon breach is announced (Psa 42:7; Eze 7:26). The war “trumpet” ... the battle shout ... the “destructions” ... the havoc throughout “the whole land” ... the spoiling of the shepherds’ “tents” (Jr 10:20; or, “tents” means cities, which should be overthrown as easily as tents [Calvin]), form a gradation.