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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 10:20 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 10:20 |
Strong Concordance |
My tabernacle [0168] is spoiled [07703], and all my cords [04340] are broken [05423]: my children [01121] are gone forth [03318] of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth [05186] my tent [0168] any more, and to set up [06965] my curtains [03407]. |
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King James |
My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
tabernacle is spoiled--metaphor from the tents of nomadic life; as these are taken down in a few moments, so as not to leave a vestige of them, so Judea (Jer 4:20).
cords--with which the coverings of the tent are extended.
curtains--tent-curtains. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| My tabernacle - He describes the overthrow of the land, or Jerusalem, by the breaking of the cords of a tabernacle, the use whereof is to fasten it on every side to stakes in the ground, which cords being broken the tabernacle falls. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| My tabernacle is spoiled - The city is taken, and all our villages ruined and desolated. |
20 Destruction [07667] upon destruction [07667] is cried [07121]; for the whole land [0776] is spoiled [07703]: suddenly [06597] are my tents [0168] spoiled [07703], and my curtains [03407] in a moment [07281].