Jeremiah 4:24-31

24 I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
25 I looked, and there were no people; every bird in the sky had flown away.
26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.
27 This is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.
28 Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.”
29 At the sound of horsemen and archers every town takes to flight. Some go into the thickets; some climb up among the rocks. All the towns are deserted; no one lives in them.
30 What are you doing, you devastated one? Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold? Why highlight your eyes with makeup? You adorn yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you; they want to kill you.
31 I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, “Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers.”

Cross References 25

  • 1. S Exodus 19:18; S Job 9:6; Isaiah 5:25; Ezekiel 38:20
  • 2. Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 9:10; Jeremiah 12:4; Hosea 4:3; Zephaniah 1:3
  • 3. S Genesis 13:10; Jeremiah 12:4; Jeremiah 23:10
  • 4. S Isaiah 6:11
  • 5. Jeremiah 12:13; Jeremiah 25:38
  • 6. S ver 13
  • 7. S Leviticus 26:44; Jeremiah 5:10,18; Jeremiah 12:12; Jeremiah 30:11; Jeremiah 46:28; Ezekiel 20:17; Amos 9:8
  • 8. Jeremiah 12:4,11; Jeremiah 14:2; Hosea 4:3
  • 9. S ver 23; Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 50:3
  • 10. S Numbers 23:19
  • 11. ver 8; Jeremiah 23:20; Jeremiah 30:24
  • 12. S ver 13; Jeremiah 6:23; Jeremiah 8:16
  • 13. 2 Kings 25:4
  • 14. S Exodus 33:22; S 1 Samuel 26:20
  • 15. S ver 7; S Isaiah 6:12
  • 16. Isaiah 10:3-4
  • 17. Ezekiel 16:11; Ezekiel 23:40
  • 18. S 2 Kings 9:30
  • 19. Job 19:14; Lamentations 1:2; Ezekiel 23:9,22
  • 20. S Psalms 35:4
  • 21. S Genesis 3:16; Jeremiah 6:24; Jeremiah 13:21; Jeremiah 22:23; Jeremiah 30:6; Micah 4:10
  • 22. S Psalms 9:14
  • 23. Isaiah 42:14
  • 24. Isaiah 1:15; Lamentations 1:17
  • 25. S Deuteronomy 32:25; Lamentations 2:21
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