Jeremiah 4:27
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New International Version (©2011)
This is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be ruined, but I will not destroy it completely.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For thus says the LORD, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For this is what the LORD says: The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not finish it off.

International Standard Version (©2012)
For this is what the LORD says: "The entire land will be devastated, but I won't completely destroy it.

NET Bible (©2006)
All this will happen because the LORD said, "The whole land will be desolate; however, I will not completely destroy it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
This is what the LORD says: The whole earth will be ruined, although I will not destroy it completely.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; 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.

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

World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jewish nation would not be final. Every end of our comforts is not a full end. Though the Lord may correct his people very severely, yet he will not cast them off. Ornaments and false colouring would be of no avail. No outward privileges or profession, no contrivances would prevent destruction. How wretched the state of those who are like foolish children in the concerns of their souls! Whatever we are ignorant of, may the Lord make of good understanding in the ways of godliness. As sin will find out the sinner, so sorrow will, sooner or later, find out the secure.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 27. - The vision breaks off, and the prophet emphasizes its truthfulness by the announcement of the Divine decree. "Desolation, and yet not a full end," is its burden. This is the same doctrine of the" remnant" which formed so important a part of the prophetic message of Isaiah and his contemporaries. However severe the punishment of Judah may be, there will be a "remnant" which shall escape, and become the seed of a holier nation (Amos 9:8; Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 10:20; Isaiah 11:11; Hosea 6:1, 2).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

27. full end—utter destruction: I will leave some hope of restoration (Jer 5:10, 18; 30:11; 46:28; compare Le 26:44).

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Lamentation for Judah
…26I beheld, and, see, 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. 27For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. 28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. …

Nehemiah 9:31 But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Jeremiah 4:20 Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are destroyed, my shelter in a moment.
Jeremiah 5:10 "Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:18 "Yet even in those days," declares the LORD, "I will not destroy you completely.
Jeremiah 7:34 I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.
Jeremiah 9:11 "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there."
Jeremiah 12:11 It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.
Jeremiah 12:12 Over all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will swarm, for the sword of the LORD will devour from one end of the land to the other; no one will be safe.
Jeremiah 25:11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jeremiah 30:11 I am with you and will save you,' declares the LORD. 'Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.'
Jeremiah 44:6 Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins they are today.
Jeremiah 46:28 Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you," declares the LORD. "Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished."