The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth refined seven times.
Jeremiah 4:12 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision 0 Destruction upon destruction is called for, and all the earth is laid waste: my tents are destroyed on a sudden, and my pavilions in a moment. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A wind too strong and full for winnowing comes at My word. Now I will also speak in judgment against [My people]. American Standard Version (1901) a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them. Common English Bible This wind is too devastating for that. Now I, even I, will pronounce my sentence against them. Catholic Public Domain Version A full spirit from these places will come to me. And now I will speak my judgments over them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I will speak my judgments with them. |
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth refined seven times.
Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
9 My bowels, my bowels are in pain, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.
1 How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the sound of the trumpet?
We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds.
6 I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will gather together famine against you: and I will break among you the staff of bread.
They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.
And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.