Bible verse
I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
Jeremiah 4:26 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 4.
22 “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
25 I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.
26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
27 For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
28 Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
29 Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
30 And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
KJV
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.
ASV
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, and before his fierce anger.
ERV
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and before his fierce anger.
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