Parallel Verses
King James Version
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
New American Standard Bible
“The
Yet I will
Holman Bible
For this is what the Lord says:
but I will not finish it off.
International Standard Version
For this is what the LORD says: "The entire land will be devastated, but I won't completely destroy it.
American Standard Version
For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
Amplified
Therefore says the Lord,
“The whole land shall be a desolation,
Yet I will not cause total destruction.
Bible in Basic English
For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.
Darby Translation
For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.
Julia Smith Translation
For thus said Jehovah, All the earth shall be a desert; and I will not make a completion.
King James 2000
For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation.
Modern King James verseion
For so Jehovah has said, The whole land shall be desolate, yet I will not make a full end.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thus hath the LORD said, "The whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not then have done.
NET Bible
All this will happen because the Lord said, "The whole land will be desolate; however, I will not completely destroy it.
New Heart English Bible
For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
The Emphasized Bible
For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become - Nevertheless a full end, will I not make.
Webster
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
Youngs Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 4:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. 27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
Jeremiah 5:18
Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
Jeremiah 30:11
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
Jeremiah 46:28
Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Ezekiel 11:13
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Leviticus 26:44
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
2 Chronicles 36:21
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Isaiah 6:11-12
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 24:3-13
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Jeremiah 4:7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 7:34
Then will I 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 shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 12:11-12
They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Jeremiah 18:16
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
Ezekiel 6:14
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 33:28
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
Amos 9:8-9
Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
Romans 9:27-29
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Romans 11:1-7
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.