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Jeremiah 4 Jeremiah Laments over Judah | Imminent Invasion | Sorrow for the Doomed Nation

Jeremiah 4:1-4 Jeremiah Laments over Judah
Jeremiah 4:5-18 Imminent Invasion
Jeremiah 4:19-31 Sorrow for the Doomed Nation

Jeremiah 4:1-2
1 “If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord,
“Return to Me;
And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight,
Then you shall not be moved.
2
And you shall swear, ‘The Lord lives,’
In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness;
The nations shall bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they shall glory.”

Jeremiah 4:14-18
14
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness,
That you may be saved.
How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
15
For a voice declares from Dan
And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim:
16
“Make mention to the nations,
Yes, proclaim against Jerusalem,
That watchers come from a far country
And raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
17
Like keepers of a field they are against her all around,
Because she has been rebellious against Me,” says the Lord.
18
“Your ways and your doings
Have procured these things for you.
This is your wickedness,
Because it is bitter,
Because it reaches to your heart.”

Jeremiah 4:22
22
“For My people are foolish,
They have not known Me.
They are silly (foolish) children,
And they have no understanding.
They are wise to do evil,
But to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 4:27-29
27 For thus says the Lord:

“The whole land shall be desolate;
Yet I will not make a full end.
28
For this shall the earth mourn,
And the heavens above be black,
Because I have spoken.
I have purposed and will not relent,
Nor will I turn back from it.
29
The whole city shall flee from the noise of the horsemen and bowmen.
They shall go into thickets and climb up on the rocks.
Every city shall be forsaken,
And not a man shall dwell in it.