Jeremiah 4:23
“I beheld the earth, and loe, it was without forme and void: and the heauens, and they had no light.”
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Jeremiah 4:23 Context
21How long shal I see the standard and heare the sound of the Trumpet? 22For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me, they are sottish children, and they haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe good they haue no knowledge. 23I beheld the earth, and loe, it was without forme and void: and the heauens, and they had no light. 24I beheld the mountaines, and loe they trembled, and all the hilles mooued lightly. 25I behelde, and loe, there was no man, and all the birdes of the heauens were fled.
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Other Translations for Jeremiah 4:23
I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.
- King James Version
I looked on the earth, and behold, {it was} formless and void; And to the heavens, and they had no light.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.
- Basic English Bible
I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Darby Bible
I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Webster's Bible
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- World English Bible
I looked [to] the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
- Youngs Literal Bible
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Jeremiah 4:23
4:23 I beheld - I Jeremiah saw this in a vision. It - The land was squalid, and ruined, like the first chaos, for which reason possibly he calls Judah the earth, in allusion to #Gen 1:2|. The heavens - He seems to proceed in his metaphor of the chaos. Every thing above and below seemed to be wrapped up in dismal blackness.