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Jeremiah 4:20 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 4 · verse 20
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.Jeremiah 4:20 · King James Version
Jeremiah 4:20 in context
18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
19My 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.
20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- Destructionshebera fracture, figuratively, ruinH7667 →
- suddenlypithʼôwminstantlyH6597 →
- curtainsyᵉrîyʻâha hangingH3407 →
- spoiledshâdadproperly, to be burlyH7703 →
- criedqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- tentsʼôhela tentH168 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-31