Jeremiah 4:26 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place [is] a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.

English 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.

English Amplified

I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid waste before the Lord's presence, before His fierce anger.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid waste before the Lord's presence, before His fierce anger.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the Lord, before His fierce anger.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

I looked, and the fertile field was a wilderness. All its cities were torn down because of the LORD and his burning anger.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before his fierce anger.

English EASY 2024

The land where crops had grown was now a desert. All the cities had become heaps of stones. The Lord had caused this to happen because he was very angry.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

I looked, and the good land had become a desert. All the cities in that land were destroyed by the Lord and his great anger.

I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

The fertile land had become a desert; its cities were in ruins because of the Lord 's fierce anger. (

English God's Word - GW 1995

I see that the fertile land has become a desert, and all its cities are torn down because of the Lord and his burning anger.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

I looked, and the fertile field was a wilderness. All its cities were torn down because of the LORD and His burning anger.

English KJV 1611

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.

English LSB

I saw, and behold, the fruitful orchard was a wilderness, And all its cities were torn down Before Yahweh, before His burning anger.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

I looked, and behold, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by His fierce anger.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were pulled down Before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

I looked and behold, the garden land was a desert, with all its cities destroyed before the LORD, before his blazing wrath.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desert and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins. The LORD had brought this all about because of his blazing anger.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

I looked. And the fruitful land had become a desert. All of its towns were destroyed. The Lord had done all of that because of his burning anger.

English NIV

I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.

English NKJ 1982

I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were broken down At the presence of the Lord, By His fierce anger.

English NLT

I looked, and the fertile fields had become a wilderness. The cities lay in ruins, crushed by the LORD's fierce anger.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

I looked at the once fruitful land, now nothing but a desert, all its cities left in ruins before Yahweh ’s burning anger.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

The fertile valleys were wilderness, and all the cities were broken down before the presence of the Lord, crushed by his fierce anger.

English Tyndale 1537

I marked well, and the plowed field was become waste: yea all their cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and indignation of his wrath.