20 Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
Jeremiah 4:20
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Jeremiah 10:19–21
19 Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.” 20 My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or se…
Psalms 73:18–20
18 Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. 19 How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors! 20 Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
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6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil. 7 Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields befo…
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10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland. 11 They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to hea…
Jeremiah 9:18–20
18 Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water. 19 For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because… 20 …
Jeremiah 48:2–4
2 There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you. 3 A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destructi…
Jeremiah 4:25–27
25 I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled. 26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger. 27 For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will…
Jeremiah 2:14–16
14 Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey? 15 The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant. 16 The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have…
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