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will not change My mind, nor will I turn from it. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>At the sound of the horseman and bowman every city flees;<br>         They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks;<br>         Every city is forsaken,<br>         And no man dwells in them. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>And you, O desolate one, what will you do?<br>         Although you dress in scarlet,<br>         Although you decorate <i>yourself with</i> ornaments of gold,<br>         Although you enlarge your eyes with paint,<br>         In vain you make yourself beautiful.<br>         <i>Your</i> lovers despise you;<br>         They seek your life. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor,<br>         The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,<br>         The cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,<br>         Stretching out her hands, <i>saying,</i><br>         Ah, woe is me, for I faint before murderers. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from above: because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not repented, neither am I turned away from it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/jeremiah/4.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />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 therefrom.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> For this doth the land mourn, And black have been the heavens above, because I have spoken -- I have purposed, And I have not repented, Nor do I turn back from it.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/the_wailing_of_risca.htm">The Wailing of Risca</a><br></span><span class="snippet">You all know the story; it scarce needs that I should tell it to you. Last Saturday week some two hundred or more miners descended in health and strength to their usual work in the bowels of the earth. They had not been working long, their wives and their children had risen, and their little ones had gone to their schools, when suddenly there was heard a noise at the mouth of the pit;--it was an explosion,--all knew what it meant. Men's hearts failed them, for well they prophesied the horror which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_7_1861/the_wailing_of_risca.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 7: 1861</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xxxii_how_those_are.htm">How those are to be Admonished who Sin from Sudden Impulse and those who Sin Deliberately. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Admonition 33.). Differently to be admonished are those who are overcome by sudden passion and those who are bound in guilt of set purpose. For those whom sudden passion overcomes are to be admonished to regard themselves as daily set in the warfare of the present life, and to protect the heart, which cannot foresee wounds, with the shield of anxious fear; to dread the hidden darts of the ambushed foe, and, in so dark a contest, to guard with continual attention the inward camp of the soul. For, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xxxii_how_those_are.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/lectures_on_revivals_of_religion/lecture_iv_prevailing_prayer.htm">Prevailing Prayer. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text.--The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.--James v. 16. THE last lecture referred principally to the confession of sin. To-night my remarks will be chiefly confined to the subject of intercession, or prayer. There are two kinds of means requisite to promote a revival; one to influence men, the other to influence God. The truth is employed to influence men, and prayer to move God. When I speak of moving God, I do not mean that God's mind is changed by prayer, or that his <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/lectures_on_revivals_of_religion/lecture_iv_prevailing_prayer.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Grandison Finney—</span><span class="citation2">Lectures on Revivals of Religion</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_ix_how_to_make.htm">How to Make Use of Christ for Cleansing of us from Our Daily Spots. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Having spoken of the way of making use of Christ for removing the guilt of our daily transgressions, we come to speak of the way of making use of Christ, for taking away the guilt that cleaveth to the soul, through daily transgressions; "for every sin defileth the man," Matt. xv. 20; and the best are said to have their spots, and to need washing, which presupposeth filthiness and defilement, Eph. v. 27. John xiii. 8-10. Hence we are so oft called to this duty of washing and making us clean. Isa. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/brown/christ_the_way_the_truth_and_the_life/chapter_ix_how_to_make.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Brown (of Wamphray)—</span><span class="citation2">Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xvii_for_they_that.htm">"For they that are after the Flesh do Mind the Things of the Flesh,",</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Rom. viii. 5.--"For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh,", &c. Though sin hath taken up the principal and inmost cabinet of the heart of man--though it hath fixed its imperial throne in the spirit of man, and makes use of all the powers and faculties in the soul to accomplish its accursed desires and fulfil its boundless lusts, yet it is not without good reason expressed in scripture, ordinarily under the name of "flesh," and a "body of death," and men dead in sins, are <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xvii_for_they_that.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_34_jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Among those who had hoped for a permanent spiritual revival as the result of the reformation under Josiah was Jeremiah, called of God to the prophetic office while still a youth, in the thirteenth year of Josiah's reign. A member of the Levitical priesthood, Jeremiah had been trained from childhood for holy service. In those happy years of preparation he little realized that he had been ordained from birth to be "a prophet unto the nations;" and when the divine call came, he was overwhelmed with <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_34_jeremiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xvi_who_walk_not.htm">"Who Walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the Flesh,"</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Rom. viii. 4, 5.--"Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh," &c. If there were nothing else to engage our hearts to religion, I think this might do it, that there is so much reason in it. Truly it is the most rational thing in the world, except some revealed mysteries of faith, which are far above reason, but not contrary to it. There is nothing besides in it, but that which is the purest reason. Even that part of it which is most difficult to man, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xvi_who_walk_not.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxiv_if_so_be.htm">"If So be that the Spirit of God Dwell in You. Now if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ, He is None of His. "</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Rom. viii. 9.--"If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." "But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth?" 2 Chron. vi. 18. It was the wonder of one of the wisest of men, and indeed, considering his infinite highness above the height of heavens, his immense and incomprehensible greatness, that the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and then the baseness, emptiness, and worthlessness of man, it may be a wonder to the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xxiv_if_so_be.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_60_visions_of_future.htm">Visions of Future Glory</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In the darkest days of her long conflict with evil, the church of God has been given revelations of the eternal purpose of Jehovah. His people have been permitted to look beyond the trials of the present to the triumphs of the future, when, the warfare having been accomplished, the redeemed will enter into possession of the promised land. These visions of future glory, scenes pictured by the hand of God, should be dear to His church today, when the controversy of the ages is rapidly closing and the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_60_visions_of_future.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/the_acceptable_sacrifice.htm">The Acceptable Sacrifice;</a><br></span><span class="snippet">OR, THE EXCELLENCY OF A BROKEN HEART: SHOWING THE NATURE, SIGNS, AND PROPER EFFECTS OF A CONTRITE SPIRIT. BEING THE LAST WORKS OF THAT EMINENT PREACHER AND FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, MR. JOHN BUNYAN, OF BEDFORD. WITH A PREFACE PREFIXED THEREUNTO BY AN EMINENT MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL IN LONDON. London: Sold by George Larkin, at the Two Swans without Bishopgates, 1692. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. The very excellent preface to this treatise, written by George Cokayn, will inform the reader of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/the_acceptable_sacrifice.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/3_original_sin.htm">Original Sin</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Q-16: DID ALL MANKIND FALL IN ADAM'S FIRST TRANSGRESSION? A: The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him, by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression. 'By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin,' &c. Rom 5:12. Adam being a representative person, while he stood, we stood; when he fell, we fell, We sinned in Adam; so it is in the text, In whom all have sinned.' Adam was the head <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/3_original_sin.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">A Body of Divinity</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/4-28.htm">Jeremiah 4:28 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/4-28.htm">Jeremiah 4:28 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/jeremiah/4-28.htm">Jeremiah 4:28 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/4-28.htm">Jeremiah 4:28 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/4-28.htm">Jeremiah 4:28 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/4-28.htm">Jeremiah 4:28 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/jeremiah/4-28.htm">Jeremiah 4:28 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/4-27.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 4:27"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 4:27" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/4-29.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 4:29"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 4:29" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/jeremiah/4-28.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>