Jeremiah 4:26

Translations

Modern

I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

Traditional

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.

Literal

I looked, and behold—the fertile land was a desert, and all its cities were torn down, before YHWH, before the face of the fury of his nose!

Latin

Aspexi, et ecce Carmelus desertus, et omnes urbes ejus destructæ sunt a facie Domini, et a facie iræ furoris ejus.

Original

Hebrew

English

I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

Notes

Jeremiah 4:23–26

In Jeremiah's vision, the Lord's intense anger was more important than his creative love (Jeremiah 10:10; 12:4; Isaiah 5:25; 24:19; Ezekiel 38:20; Zephaniah 1:3). He was reversing the order of creation (see Genesis 1:2–3).

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Psalm 107:34
…and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Deuteronomy 29:23–28
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
Psalm 76:7
You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
Jeremiah 14:2–6
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
Isaiah 7:20–25
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
Isaiah 5:9–10
I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah (Person)

Topics

Anger: Anger of God Condescension of God: Expostulates with Backsliding Israel Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments War: Evils of

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