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id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/3.htm" title="Jeremiah 3">◄</a> Jeremiah 4 <a href="../jeremiah/5.htm" title="Jeremiah 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>If thou wilt return, O Israel,</div><div class="po2">Saith the LORD,</div><div class="po2">Yea, return unto Me;</div><div class="po2">And if thou wilt put away thy detestable things out of My sight,</div><div class="po2">And wilt not waver;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And wilt swear: ‘As the LORD liveth’</div><div class="po2">In truth, in justice, and in righteousness;</div><div class="po2">Then shall the nations bless themselves by Him,</div><div class="po2">And in Him shall they glory.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem:</div><div class="po2">Break up for you a fallow ground,</div><div class="po2">And sow not among thorns.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Circumcise yourselves to the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And take away the foreskins of your heart,</div><div class="po2">Ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem;</div><div class="po2">Lest My fury go forth like fire,</div><div class="po2">And burn that none can quench it,</div><div class="po2">Because of the evil of your doings.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem,</div><div class="po2">And say: ‘Blow ye the horn in the land’;</div><div class="po2">Cry aloud and say:</div><div class="po2">‘Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Set up a standard toward Zion;</div><div class="po2">Put yourselves under covert, stay not;</div><div class="po2">For I will bring evil from the north,</div><div class="po2">And a great destruction.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>A lion is gone up from his thicket,</div><div class="po2">And a destroyer of nations</div><div class="po2">Is set out, gone forth from his place;</div><div class="po2">To make thy land desolate,</div><div class="po2">That thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For this gird you with sackcloth,</div><div class="po2">Lament and wail;</div><div class="po2">For the fierce anger of the LORD</div><div class="po2">Is not turned back from us.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass at that day,</div><div class="po2">Saith the LORD,</div><div class="po2">That the heart of the king shall fail,</div><div class="po2">And the heart of the princes;</div><div class="po2">And the priests shall be astonished, And the prophets shall wonder.</div> <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then said I: ‘Ah, Lord GOD! surely Thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.’ <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>At that time shall it be said of this people and of Jerusalem;</div><div class="po2">A hot wind of the high hills in the wilderness</div><div class="po2">Toward the daughter of My people,</div><div class="po2">Not to fan, nor to cleanse;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A wind too strong for this shall come for Me;</div><div class="po2">Now will I also utter judgments against them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, he cometh up as clouds,</div><div class="po2">And his chariots are as the whirlwind;</div><div class="po2">His horses are swifter than eagles.—</div><div class="po2">‘Woe unto us! for we are undone.’—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness,</div><div class="po2">That thou mayest be saved.</div><div class="po2">How long shall thy baleful thoughts</div><div class="po2">Lodge within thee?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For hark! one declareth from Dan,</div><div class="po2">And announceth calamity from the hills of Ephraim:</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>‘Make ye mention to the nations:</div><div class="po2">Behold—publish concerning Jerusalem—</div><div class="po2">Watchers come from a far country,</div><div class="po2">And give out their voice against the cities of Judah.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>As keepers of a field</div><div class="po2">Are they against her round about;</div><div class="po2">Because she hath been rebellious against Me,<p>Saith the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Thy way and thy doings have procured</div><div class="po2">These things unto thee;</div><div class="po2">This is thy wickedness; yea, it is bitter,</div><div class="po2">Yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>My bowels, my bowels! I writhe in pain!</div><div class="po2">The chambers of my heart!</div><div class="po2">My heart moaneth within me!</div><div class="po2">I cannot hold my peace!</div><div class="po2">Because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the horn,</div><div class="po2">The alarm of war.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Destruction followeth upon destruction,</div><div class="po2">For the whole land is spoiled;</div><div class="po2">Suddenly are my tents spoiled,</div><div class="po2">My curtains in a moment.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>How long shall I see the standard,</div><div class="po2">Shall I hear the sound of the horn?</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For My people is foolish,</div><div class="po2">They know Me not;</div><div class="po2">They are sottish children,</div><div class="po2">And they have no understanding;</div><div class="po2">They are wise to do evil,</div><div class="po2">But to do good they have no knowledge.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I beheld the earth,</div><div class="po2">And, lo, it was waste and void;</div><div class="po2">And the heavens, and they had no light.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,</div><div class="po2">And all the hills moved to and fro.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I beheld, and, lo, there was no man,</div><div class="po2">And all the birds of the heavens were fled.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness,</div><div class="po2">And all the cities thereof were broken down</div><div class="po2">At the presence of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And before His fierce anger.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For thus saith the LORD:</div><div class="po2">The whole land shall be desolate;</div><div class="po2">Yet will I not make a full end.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For this shall the earth mourn,</div><div class="po2">And the heavens above be black;</div><div class="po2">Because I have spoken it, I have purposed it,</div><div class="po2">And I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen</div><div class="po2">The whole city fleeth;</div><div class="po2">They go into the thickets,</div><div class="po2">And climb up upon the rocks;</div><div class="po2">Every city is forsaken,</div><div class="po2">And not a man dwelleth therein.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And thou, that art spoiled, what doest thou,</div><div class="po2">That thou clothest thyself with scarlet,</div><div class="po2">That thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold,</div><div class="po2">That thou enlargest thine eyes with paint?</div><div class="po2">In vain dost thou make thyself fair;</div><div class="po2">Thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail,</div><div class="po2">The anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child,</div><div class="po2">The voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath,</div><div class="po2">That spreadeth her hands:</div><div class="po2">‘Woe is me, now! for my soul fainteth</div><div class="po2">Before the murderers.’</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 5" /></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><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/jeremiah/4-1.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"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_a957f3"); var rcel = document.createElement("script"); rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; rcel.src = "https://trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=111176&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); rcel.async = true; rcds.appendChild(rcel); })(); </script> </td></tr></table> <br /><br /> <div class="bot2"> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2-bhub.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></body></html>