Jeremiah 4:8

8 So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORDhas not turned away from us.

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Jeremiah 4:8 in Other Translations

KJV

8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

ESV

8 For this put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us."

NLT

8 So put on clothes of mourning and weep with broken hearts, for the fierce anger of the LORD is still upon us.

MSG

8 Dress in funereal black. Weep and wail, For God's sledgehammer anger has slammed into us head-on.

CSB

8 Because of this, put on sackcloth; mourn and wail, for the Lord's burning anger has not turned away from us.

Jeremiah 4:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 4:8

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl
That is, because of this destruction threatened, which was so near at hand, and so sure and certain: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.
The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it "from you" and some render it "from it" ^F21; from his purpose and design to destroy the Jews. Jarchi interprets this of Josiah, and his times, who, though he turned to the Lord with all his heart, yet the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his wrath and anger against Judah, ( 2 Kings 23:25 2 Kings 23:26 ) .

FOOTNOTES:

F21 (wnmm) "ab illo", i.e. "ab illo proposito", Cocceius; "ab eo", Montanus.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Jeremiah 4:8 In-Context

6 Raise the signal to go to Zion! Flee for safety without delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, even terrible destruction.”

7 A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.

8 So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORDhas not turned away from us.

9 “In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and the officials will lose heart, the priests will be horrified, and the prophets will be appalled.”

10 Then I said, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! How completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ when the sword is at our throats!”

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1. 1 Kings 21:27; S Isaiah 3:24; Isaiah 22:12; Jeremiah 6:26; Ezekiel 7:18; Joel 1:8
2. Jeremiah 7:29; Jeremiah 9:20; Amos 5:1
3. S Isaiah 10:4; S Jeremiah 30:24

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