Jeremiah 4 · Verse 27

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Jeremiah 4:27, King James Version

Jeremiah 4:27 in other translations

BSBFor this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
WEBFor the LORD says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
ASVFor thus saith Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
YLTFor thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.
DARBYFor thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.
BBEFor this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.
WebsterFor thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

What does Jeremiah 4:27 mean?

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

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 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…

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Jeremiah 4:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּי\־ki-forH3588
כֹה֙khohthusH3541
אָמַ֣ר'a.Marhe saysH559
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068
שְׁמָמָ֥הshe.ma.Maha desolationH8077
תִהְיֶ֖הtih.Yehit will beH1961
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe earthH776
וְכָלָ֖הve.kha.Lahand complete destructionH3617
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
אֶעֱשֶֽׂה\׃'e.'e.SehI will makeH6213

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 4:27

  • Jeremiah 46:28

    Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

  • Jeremiah 5:18

    Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you.

  • Jeremiah 5:10

    Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.

  • Jeremiah 30:11

    For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

  • Romans 9:27-29

    Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

  • Ezekiel 11:13

    And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

  • Romans 11:1-7

    I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. …

  • Leviticus 26:44

    And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.

  • Jeremiah 18:16

    To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

  • Isaiah 6:11-12

    Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

  • Jeremiah 12:11-12

    They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

  • Ezekiel 33:28

    For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The.
7; 7:34; 12:11; 18:16; 2Ch 36:21; Isa 6:11,12; 24:1,3-12
Eze 6:14; 33:28
yet.
5:10,18; 30:11; 46:28; Le 26:44; Isa 24:12,13; Eze 11:13; Am 9:8,9
Ro 9:27-29; 11:1-7

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Context

  • 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.

  • Jeremiah 4:27

    For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

  • 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.

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Jeremiah 4:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque así dijo Jehová: Toda la tierra será asolada; mas no haré consumación.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car ainsi dit l’ Éternel: Tout le pays sera une désolation, mais je ne le détruirai pas entièrement.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn so spricht Jehova: Das ganze Land soll eine Wüste werden; doch will ich es nicht gänzlich zerstören.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Hæc enim dicit Dominus: Deserta erit omnis terra, sed tamen consummationem non faciam.