NITHYAM SONGSJeremiah 4
World English Bible (WEB) • 31 verses
1“If you will return, Israel,” says the LORD, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
2and you will swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
RelatedIsaiah 65:16 · Jeremiah 9:24 · Genesis 22:18 · Deuteronomy 10:20 · 1 Corinthians 1:31 · 2 Corinthians 10:17
3For the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
RelatedDeuteronomy 10:16 · Colossians 2:11 · Romans 2:28-29 · Deuteronomy 30:6 · Jeremiah 9:26 · Jeremiah 21:12
5Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’
6Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
RelatedJeremiah 50:2 · Jeremiah 1:13-15 · Jeremiah 51:27 · Jeremiah 4:21 · Jeremiah 6:22 · Jeremiah 51:12
7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
8For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD hasn’t turned back from us.
9“It will happen at that day,” says the LORD, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”
RelatedIsaiah 22:3-5 · Ezekiel 13:9-16 · Isaiah 29:9-10 · Isaiah 19:3 · Isaiah 21:3-4 · Jeremiah 6:13-14
10Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
Related2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 · Jeremiah 5:12 · Jeremiah 14:13-14 · Isaiah 37:35 · Jeremiah 8:11 · Ezekiel 14:9-10
11At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind blows from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse.
12A full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
13Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
RelatedIsaiah 19:1 · Isaiah 66:15 · Lamentations 4:19 · Isaiah 5:28 · Habakkuk 1:8 · Deuteronomy 28:49
14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
15For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
16“Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
17As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says the LORD.
RelatedJeremiah 5:23 · 2 Kings 25:1-4 · Lamentations 1:18 · Nehemiah 9:30 · Luke 19:43-44 · Daniel 9:7-19
18“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
RelatedPsalms 42:7 · 2 Thessalonians 1:9 · Matthew 10:28 · Joel 1:15 · Ezekiel 7:25-26 · Leviticus 26:18
21How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Related2 Chronicles 36:3 · 2 Chronicles 35:25 · Jeremiah 4:5-6 · 2 Chronicles 36:6-7 · Jeremiah 6:1 · 2 Chronicles 36:17
22“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
23I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
24I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
25I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
26I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, before his fierce anger.
RelatedPsalms 107:34 · Jeremiah 14:2-6 · Isaiah 5:9-10 · Isaiah 7:20-25 · Jeremiah 12:4 · Psalms 76:7
27For the LORD says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
RelatedJeremiah 5:18 · Jeremiah 46:28 · Jeremiah 5:10 · Jeremiah 30:11 · Romans 9:27-29 · Leviticus 26:44
28For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
29Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
RelatedJeremiah 4:7 · Isaiah 2:19-21 · 2 Kings 25:4-7 · 2 Chronicles 33:11 · 1 Samuel 13:6 · Amos 9:1
30You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
RelatedLamentations 1:19 · 2 Kings 9:30 · Lamentations 1:2 · Isaiah 10:3 · Ezekiel 23:9-10 · Ezekiel 16:36-41
31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
RelatedIsaiah 1:15 · Lamentations 1:17 · Jeremiah 13:21 · 1 Corinthians 9:16 · Jeremiah 48:41 · Isaiah 6:5
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