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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 4
4:1 If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return unto me: and
if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then shall you
not remove.
4:2 And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and
in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in
him shall they glory.
4:3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break
up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins
of your heart, all of you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest
my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because
of the evil of your doings.
4:5 Declare all of you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say,
Blow all of you the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say,
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring
evil from the north, and a great destruction.
4:7 The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the
Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make your land
desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the fierce
anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that the
heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests
shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely you have greatly deceived this
people and Jerusalem, saying, All of you shall have peace; whereas the
sword reachs unto the soul.
4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem,
A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of
my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
4:12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also
will I give sentence against them.
4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be
as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we
are spoiled.
4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be
saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
4:15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from mount
Ephraim.
4:16 Make all of you mention to the nations; behold, publish against
Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice
against the cities of Judah.
4:17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because
she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.
4:18 Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you;
this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reachs unto your
heart.
4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes
a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul,
the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled:
suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
4:21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are foolish
children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but
to do good they have no knowledge.
4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and
the heavens, and they had no light.
4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills
moved lightly.
4:25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the
heavens were fled.
4:26 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.
4:27 For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate;
yet will I not make a full end.
4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black;
because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither
will I turn back from it.
4:29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen;
they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall
be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
4:30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you cloth yourself
with crimson, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you rent
your face with painting, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers
will despise you, they will seek your life.
4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish
as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter
of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me
now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
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