Jeremiah 4:20

Disaster piles on disaster as the whole land is suddenly laid waste. It matters because it conveys the swift, total ruin that judgment brings.

Cross-references · 24

• Ps 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
• Matt 10:28And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Ezek 7:25–26Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
• Joel 1:15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
• 2 Th 1:9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
• Lam 3:47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
• Ezek 14:21For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
• Jer 10:19–20Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
• Jer 17:18Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
• Isa 13:6Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
• Lev 26:18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
• Exod 33:5For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
• Lev 26:21And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
• Isa 33:20Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
• Lev 26:24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
• Jer 4:6Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
• Isa 47:9But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
• Isa 54:2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
• Num 16:21Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
• Hab 3:7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
• Lam 2:6–9And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
• Num 16:45Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
• Lev 26:28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
• Ps 72:19And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

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