--- title: "Jeremiah 4:20-26 KJV - \"Destruction upon destruction is cried;...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.\" β€” Read Jeremiah 4:20-26 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/jeremiah/4/20-26" --- [ Read](/kjv/jeremiah/4)[ Commentary](/study/jeremiah/4)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/jeremiah/4) Audio ## Jeremiah 4:20-26 in Context (Verses 17–29 KJV) [17 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/17) As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. [18 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/18) Thy way and thy doings have procured these *things* unto thee; this *is* thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. [19 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/19) ΒΆ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.* [20 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/20) Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, *and* my curtains in a moment. [21 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/21) How long shall I see the standard, *and* hear the sound of the trumpet? [22 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/22) For my people *is* foolish, they have not known me; they *are* sottish children, and they have none understanding: they *are* wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. [23 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/23) I beheld the earth, and, lo, *it was* without form, and void; and the heavens, and they *had* no light. [24 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/24) I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. [25 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/25) I beheld, and, lo, *there was* no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. [26 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/26) 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. [27 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/27) For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. [28 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/28) For 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. [29 ](/kjv/jeremiah/4/29) The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city *shall be* forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. 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