Jeremia 4:20

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

De ene breuke volgt op de andere; want het ganse land is der verdelging prijsgegeven; plotseling zijn mijn tenten verdelgd, in een oogwenk al mijn gordijnen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En de ene nederlaag op de andere roept men uit, want het gehele land wordt verwoest; schielijk worden mijne hutten en mijne tenten vernield.

Staten Vertaling
Breuk op breuk wordt er uitgeroepen; want het ganse land is verstoord; haastelijk zijn mijn tenten verstoord, mijn gordijnen in een ogenblik!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

upon destruction: Jeremiah 4:6, Jeremiah 17:18, Leviticus 26:18, Leviticus 26:21, Leviticus 26:24, Leviticus 26:28, Psalms 42:7, Isaiah 13:6, Lamentations 3:47, Ezekiel 7:25, Ezekiel 7:26, Ezekiel 14:21, Joel 1:15, Matthew 10:28, 2 Thessalonians 1:9

suddenly: Jeremiah 10:19, Jeremiah 10:20, Isaiah 33:20, Isaiah 54:2, Lamentations 2:6-9, Habakkuk 3:7

in: Exodus 33:5, Numbers 16:21, Numbers 16:45, Psalms 72:19, Isaiah 47:9

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:53 - they spoiled Isaiah 15:5 - destruction Isaiah 33:9 - earth Jeremiah 6:1 - blow Jeremiah 6:26 - for the Jeremiah 9:19 - we are Jeremiah 17:16 - neither Jeremiah 18:22 - a cry Jeremiah 20:5 - I will deliver Jeremiah 22:6 - surely Jeremiah 48:3 - voice Jeremiah 49:29 - curtains Jeremiah 51:31 - post Ezekiel 22:20 - in mine Amos 5:2 - she is Zephaniah 1:13 - their goods Zephaniah 1:16 - day Luke 21:9 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Destruction upon destruction is cried;.... Or, "breach upon breach" g; as soon as one affliction is over, another comes on; and upon the news of one calamity, tidings are brought of another, as in Job's case: it signifies, that distress and troubles would come thick and fast, and that there would be no end of them, until there was an utter destruction, as this phrase signifies, and the following words show. Kimchi interprets it of the destruction of the ten tribes which came first, and of the destruction of Judah that came now.

For the whole land is spoiled, or "wasted" h; that is, the land of Judea:

suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment: meaning either the armies of his people, which dwelt in tents, and were destroyed at once; or the cities, towns, and habitations of his countrymen, which he compares to tents, as being easily beat down or overthrown; and so the Targum interprets it of cities; and the prophet seems to intimate that this destruction would reach to Anathoth, where his tent; cottage, and curtains were. So sudden destruction some times comes, when men are crying Peace, peace, 1 Thessalonians 5:3.

g שבר על שבר "contritio super contritionem", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius. h שדדה "vastata", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Destruction ... - Or, breaking upon breaking Jeremiah 4:6. The news of one breaking, one violent calamity, follows close upon another.

My curtains - The curtains of the tent, put here for the tents themselves. tents were the ordinary habitations of the Israelites.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 4:20. Destruction upon destruction — Cities burnt, and their inhabitants destroyed.

My tents spoiled — Even the solitary dwellings in the fields and open country do not escape.