Jeremiah:4:5-31

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* Declare ye in Judah , and publish in Jerusalem , and say , Blow ye the trumpet in the land . Cry aloud and say , Assemble yourselves , and let us go into the fortified cities . * Set up a standard toward Zion . Flee for safety , do not stay . For I will bring evil from the north , and a great destruction . * A lion has gone up from his thicket , and a destroyer of nations . He is on his way , he has gone forth from his place , to make thy land desolate , that thy cities be laid waste , without inhabitant . * For this gird you with sackcloth , lament and wail , for the fierce anger of LORD is not turned back from us . * And it shall come to pass at that day , says LORD , that the heart of the king shall perish , and the heart of the rulers , and the priests shall be astonished , and the prophets shall wonder . * Then I said , Ah , lord LORD ! Surely thou have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem , saying , Ye shall have peace , whereas the sword reaches to the life . * At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem , A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people , not to winnow , nor to cleanse , * a full wind from these shall come for me . Now I will also utter judgments against them . * Behold , he shall come up as clouds , and his chariots as the whirlwind . His horses are swifter than eagles . Woe to us ! For we are ruined . * O Jerusalem , wash thy heart from wickedness , that thou may be saved . How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee ? * For a voice declares from Dan , and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim : * Make ye mention to the nations . Behold , publish against Jerusalem , [that ] watchers come from a far country , and give out their voice against the cities of Judah . * They are as keepers of a field against her round about , because she has been rebellious against me , says LORD . * Thy way and thy doings have procured these things to thee . This is thy wickedness , for it is bitter , for it reaches to thy heart . * My anguish , my anguish ! I am pained at my very heart . My heart is disquieted in me . I cannot hold my peace , because thou have heard , O my soul , the sound of the trumpet , the alarm of war . * Destruction upon destruction is cried , for the whole land is laid waste . Suddenly my tents are destroyed , [and ] my curtains in a moment . * How long shall I see the standard , and hear the sound of the trumpet ? * For my people are foolish . They do not know me . They are sottish sons , and they have no understanding . They are wise to do evil , but to do good they have no knowledge . * I beheld the earth , and , lo , it was waste and void , and the heavens , and they had no light . * I beheld the mountains , and , lo , they trembled , and all the hills moved to and fro . * I beheld , and , lo , there was no man , and all the birds of the heavens were fled . * I beheld , and , lo , the fruitful field was a wilderness , and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of LORD , [and ] before his fierce anger . * For thus says LORD : The whole land shall be a desolation , yet I will not make a full end . * For this the earth shall mourn , and the heavens above be black , because I have spoken it , I have purposed it , and I have not relented , nor will I turn back from it . * Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen . They go into the thickets , and climb up upon the rocks . Every city is forsaken , and not a man dwells in it . * And thou , when thou are made desolate , what will thou do ? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet , though thou deck thee with ornaments of gold , though thou enlarge thine eyes with paint , in vain thou make thyself fair . [Thy ] lover * For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail , the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child , the voice of the daughter of Zion , who gasps for breath , who spreads her hands , [saying ], Woe is me now ! For my soul faints

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