Jeremiah Chapter 4

• Jeremiah 4:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 4:2
  “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 ...
• Jeremiah 4:3
  and 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 ...
• Jeremiah 4:4
  For the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
• Jeremiah 4:5
  Circumcise 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...
• Jeremiah 4:6
  Declare 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 fortif...
• Jeremiah 4:7
  Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
• Jeremiah 4:8
  A 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 yo...
• Jeremiah 4:9
  For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD hasn’t turned back from us.
• Jeremiah 4:10
  “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 astonis...
• Jeremiah 4:11
  Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to th...
• Jeremiah 4:12
  At 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 peop...
• Jeremiah 4:13
  A full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
• Jeremiah 4:14
  Behold, 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.
• Jeremiah 4:15
  Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
• Jeremiah 4:16
  For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
• Jeremiah 4:17
  “Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
• Jeremiah 4:18
  As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 4:19
  “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.”
• Jeremiah 4:20
  My 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...
• Jeremiah 4:21
  Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
• Jeremiah 4:22
  How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
• Jeremiah 4:23
  “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 d...
• Jeremiah 4:24
  I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Jeremiah 4:25
  I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
• Jeremiah 4:26
  I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
• Jeremiah 4:27
  I 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.
• Jeremiah 4:28
  For the LORD says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
• Jeremiah 4:29
  For 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 tu...
• Jeremiah 4:30
  Every 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...
• Jeremiah 4:31
  You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though yo...
• Jeremiah 4:32
  For 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 ga...