Jeremiah 4:27

THE MESSAGE

Yes, this is God 's Word on the matter: "The whole country will be laid waste— still it won't be the end of the world. The earth will mourn and the skies lament Because I've given my word and won't take it back. I've decided and won't change my mind."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For this is what the Lord says:

Hebrew Names Version
For thus says the LORD, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

King James Version
For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

English Standard Version
For thus says the Lord , "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

New American Standard Bible
For this is what the LORD says: "The whole land shall be a desolation, Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

New Century Version
This is what the Lord says: "All the land will be ruined, but I will not completely destroy it.

Amplified Bible
Therefore says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation, Yet I will not cause total destruction.

World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For thus hath the Lorde saide, The whole lande shall be desolate: yet will I not make a full ende.

Legacy Standard Bible
For thus says Yahweh,"The whole land shall be a desolation,Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

Berean Standard Bible
For this is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: I have made my decision, and I won't change my mind. This land will be destroyed, although not completely. The sky will turn dark, and the earth will mourn.

Complete Jewish Bible
For here is what Adonai says: "The whole land will be desolate (although I will not destroy it completely).

Darby Translation
For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.

Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord says: "The whole country will be ruined, but I will not completely destroy the land.

George Lamsa Translation
For thus says the LORD God, The whole land shall be desolate; yet I will not make a full end.

Good News Translation
(The Lord has said that the whole earth will become a wasteland, but that he will not completely destroy it.)

Lexham English Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation.

Literal Translation
For so Jehovah has said, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thus hath the LORDE sayde: The whole londe shalbe desolate, yet will I not then haue done.

American Standard Version
For thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

Bible in Basic English
For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For thus saith the LORD: The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

King James Version (1611)
For thus hath the Lord said; The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full ende.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thus hath the Lorde saide: The whole lande shalbe desolate, yet wyll I not then haue done.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus saith the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a full end.

English Revised Version
For thus saith the LORD, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the Lord seith these thingis, Al the lond schal be forsakun, but netheles Y schal not make an endyng.

Update Bible Version
For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

New English Translation
All this will happen because the Lord said, "The whole land will be desolate; however, I will not completely destroy it.

New King James Version
For thus says the LORD: "The whole land shall be desolate; Yet I will not make a full end.

New Living Translation
This is what the Lord says: "The whole land will be ruined, but I will not destroy it completely.

New Life Bible
For the Lord says, "The whole land will be laid waste, yet I will not destroy everything.

New Revised Standard
For thus says the Lord : The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become - Nevertheless a full end, will I not make.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.

Revised Standard Version
For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Young's Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation, Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹I'm doubled up with cramps in my belly— a poker burns in my gut. My insides are tearing me up, never a moment's peace. The ram's horn trumpet blast rings in my ears, the signal for all-out war. Disaster hard on the heels of disaster, the whole country in ruins! In one stroke my home is destroyed, the walls flattened in the blink of an eye. How long do I have to look at the warning flares, listen to the siren of danger? ²² "What fools my people are! They have no idea who I am. A company of half-wits, dopes and donkeys all! Experts at evil but klutzes at good." ²³I looked at the earth— it was back to pre-Genesis chaos and emptiness. I looked at the skies, and not a star to be seen. I looked at the mountains— they were trembling like aspen leaves, And all the hills rocking back and forth in the wind. I looked—what's this! Not a man or woman in sight, and not a bird to be seen in the skies. I looked—this can't be! Every garden and orchard shriveled up. All the towns were ghost towns. And all this because of God , because of the blazing anger of God . ²⁷Yes, this is God 's Word on the matter: "The whole country will be laid waste— still it won't be the end of the world. The earth will mourn and the skies lament Because I've given my word and won't take it back. I've decided and won't change my mind." ²⁹ Someone shouts, "Horsemen and archers!" and everybody runs for cover. They hide in ditches, they climb into caves. The cities are emptied, not a person left anywhere. ³⁰And you, what do you think you're up to? Dressing up in party clothes, Decking yourselves out in jewelry, putting on lipstick and rouge and mascara! Your primping goes for nothing. You're not going to seduce anyone. They're out to kill you! And what's that I hear? The cry of a woman in labor, the screams of a mother giving birth to her firstborn. It's the cry of Daughter Zion, gasping for breath, reaching out for help: "Help, oh help me! I'm dying! The killers are on me!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The: Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 12:11, Jeremiah 18:16, 2 Chronicles 36:21, Isaiah 6:11, Isaiah 6:12, Isaiah 24:1, Isaiah 24:3-12, Ezekiel 6:14, Ezekiel 33:28

yet: Jeremiah 5:10, Jeremiah 5:18, Jeremiah 30:11, Jeremiah 46:28, Leviticus 26:44, Isaiah 24:12, Isaiah 24:13, Ezekiel 11:13, Amos 9:8, Amos 9:9, Romans 9:27-29, Romans 11:1-7

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:31 - for thy great Isaiah 27:8 - his rough Jeremiah 4:29 - every Ezekiel 12:16 - I will Ezekiel 12:19 - that her Ezekiel 14:22 - therein Ezekiel 20:17 - neither Hosea 4:3 - the land Habakkuk 1:12 - we

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus hath the Lord said,.... What follows is an explanation and confirmation of the above vision the prophet had:

the whole land shall be desolate; as he had seen; it should not be manured, ploughed, and sown, or bring forth fruit; and should be without inhabitants, at least have very few:

yet I will not make a full end; there should be some inhabitants, who, with those that should hereafter return from captivity, would repeople it, rebuild the temple, and restore it to its pristine form and order, both as to things natural, civil, and ecclesiastical; but though a full end of them, as a church and people, was not to be made now by the Chaldeans, yet it would be; as it has been done by the Romans, in the times of Vespasian and Hadrian.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Desolate - a waste.

One of the most striking points of prophecy is, that however severe. may be the judgment pronounced against Judah, there is always the reservation, that the ruin shall not be complete Jeremiah 3:14.