Jeremiah 4:27

27 haec enim dicit Dominus deserta erit omnis terra sed tamen consummationem non faciam

Jeremiah 4:27 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 4:27

For thus hath the Lord said
What follows is an explanation and confirmation of the above vision the prophet had: the whole land shall be desolate;
as he had seen; it should not be manured, ploughed, and sown, or bring forth fruit; and should be without inhabitants, at least have very few: yet I will not make a full end;
there should be some inhabitants, who, with those that should hereafter return from captivity, would repeople it, rebuild the temple, and restore it to its pristine form and order, both as to things natural, civil, and ecclesiastical; but though a full end of them, as a church and people, was not to be made now by the Chaldeans, yet it would be; as it has been done by the Romans, in the times of Vespasian and Hadrian.

Jeremiah 4:27 In-Context

25 intuitus sum et non erat homo et omne volatile caeli recessit

26 aspexi et ecce Carmelus desertus et omnes urbes eius destructae sunt a facie Domini et a facie irae furoris eius

27 haec enim dicit Dominus deserta erit omnis terra sed tamen consummationem non faciam

28 lugebit terra et maerebunt caeli desuper eo quod locutus sum cogitavi et non paenituit me nec aversus sum ab eo

29 a voce equitis et mittentis sagittam fugit omnis civitas ingressi sunt ardua et ascenderunt rupes universae urbes derelictae sunt et non habitat in eis homo