| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Jer 4:26 | Strong Concordance | I beheld [07200], and, lo, the fruitful place [03759] was a wilderness [04057], and all the cities [05892] thereof were broken down [05422] at the presence [06440] of the LORD [03068], and by his fierce [02740] anger [0639]. |
| King James | 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. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| fruitful place--Hebrew, Carmel. a wilderness--Hebrew, "the wilderness," in contrast to "the fruitful place"; the great desert, where Carmel was, there is now the desert of Arabia [MAURER]. cities--in contrast to the fruitful place or field. |