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Jeremiah

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Chapter 4

¹“If you return, O Israel, declares the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver, ²and if you swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.” ³For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. ⁴Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.” ⁵Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem: “Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!’ ⁶Raise a signal toward Zion! Flee for safety, stay not, for I bring disaster from the north, and great destruction. ⁷A lion has come up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations. He has set out; he has gone from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant. ⁸For this, put on sackcloth; lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us. ⁹“In that day, declares the LORD, courage will fail the king and the princes; the priests will be appalled, and the prophets astounded.” ¹⁰Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you,’ whereas the sword has reached their very life.” ¹¹At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse, ¹²a wind too strong for that, will come from me. Now I will pronounce judgments against them.” ¹³Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined! ¹⁴O Jerusalem, 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 proclaims trouble from Mount Ephraim. ¹⁶Announce to the nations; proclaim to Jerusalem: “Besiegers come from a distant land, and they shout against the cities of Judah. ¹⁷They surround her like watchmen of a field, because she has been rebellious against me, declares the LORD. ¹⁸Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.” ¹⁹My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. ²⁰Disaster follows hard on disaster; the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my curtains in a moment. ²¹How 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; they have no understanding. They are wise in doing evil, but how to do good they know not.” ²³I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light. ²⁴I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. ²⁵I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled. ²⁶I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger. ²⁷For thus says the LORD: “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. ²⁸For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above grow dark; for I have spoken and I will not relent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back.” ²⁹At the sound of horseman and archer every city takes to flight; they enter thickets and climb among rocks; all the cities are forsaken, and no man dwells in them. ³⁰And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life. ³¹For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one delivering her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”