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Jeremiah, Chapter 4, verses 19-31

¹⁹ My^g Lit inward partssoul, my^h Lit inward partssoul! I am in anguish!ⁱ Lit The walls of my heartOh, my heart! My heart is pounding in me; I cannot be silent, Because^j Or I, my soul, heardyou have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war. ²⁰ Disaster on disaster is proclaimed, For the whole land is devastated; Suddenly my tents are devastated, My curtains in an instant. ²¹ How long must I see the standard And hear the sound of the trumpet? ²² “For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.”	19 Isa 15:5 Isa 16:11 Isa 21:3 Isa 22:4 Jer 9:1 Jer 9:10 Jer 20:9 Hab 3:16 Num 10:9 20 Psa 42:7 Eze 7:26 Jer 4:27 Jer 10:20 22 Jer 5:4 Jer 5:21 Jer 10:8 Rom 1:22 Jer 9:3 Jer 13:23 Rom 16:19 Co1 14:20
²³ I looked on the earth, and behold, it was^k Or a waste and emptiness formless and void; And to the heavens, and they had no light. ²⁴ I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, And all the hills^l Lit moved lightlymoved to and fro. ²⁵ I looked, and behold, there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled. ²⁶ I looked, and behold,^m Or Carmelthe fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were pulled down Before the LORD, before His fierce anger.	23 Gen 1:2 Isa 24:19 24 Isa 5:25 Jer 10:10 Eze 38:20 25 Jer 9:10 Jer 12:4 Zep 1:3 26 Jer 9:10
²⁷ For thus says the LORD, “The whole land shall be a desolation, Yet I will not execute a complete destruction. ²⁸ “For this the earth shall mourn And the heavens above be dark, Because I have spoken, I have purposed, And I will notⁿ Lit be sorrychange My mind, nor will I turn from it.” ²⁹ At the sound of the horseman and bowman every city flees; They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks; Every city is forsaken, And no man dwells in them. ³⁰ And you, O desolate one, what will you do? Although you dress in scarlet, Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold, Although you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain you make yourself beautiful. Your^o Lit paramourslovers despise you; They seek your life. ³¹ For I heard a^p Lit soundcry as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, The^q Lit soundcry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her^r Lit palmshands, saying, “Ah, woe is me, for^s Lit my soul faintsI faint before murderers.”	27 Jer 12:11 Jer 12:12 Jer 25:11 Jer 5:10 Jer 5:18 Jer 30:11 Jer 46:28 28 Jer 12:4 Jer 12:11 Jer 14:2 Hos 4:3 Isa 5:30 Isa 50:3 Joe 2:30 Joe 2:31 Num 23:19 Jer 23:20 Jer 30:24 29 Ki2 25:4 Isa 2:19-21 Jer 16:16 Jer 4:7 30 Isa 10:3 Isa 20:6 Jer 13:21 Ki2 9:30 Eze 23:40 Jer 22:20 Jer 22:22 Lam 1:2 Lam 1:19 Eze 23:9 Eze 23:10 Eze 23:22 31 Isa 42:14 Isa 1:15 Lam 1:17


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