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Jeremiah 4:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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My dear  people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in the dust. Mourn as you would for an only son, a bitter lament, for suddenly the destroyer  will come on us.


On that day the Lord God of Armies called for weeping,  for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.


Shudder, you complacent ones; tremble, you overconfident ones! Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth round your waists.


There will be nothing to do except crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


Therefore the Lord’s anger burned  against his people. He raised his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like rubbish in the streets. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone  to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.


‘Son of man, prophesy and say, “This is what the Lord God says: Wail,  ‘Woe because of that day! ’


‘Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel! They are given over to the sword with my people. Therefore strike your thigh in grief.


Moab is put to shame, indeed dismayed. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.


The Lord’s burning anger will not turn back until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart. In time to come you will understand it.


Wail! For the day of the  Lord is near. It will come as destruction from the Almighty.


Manasseh eats Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; together, both are against Judah. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over  Israel’s young men and has no compassion on its fatherless and widows, for everyone is a godless evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have consumed Israel with open mouths. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


The Lord said to Moses, ‘Take all the leaders of the people and execute  them in broad daylight before the Lord so that his burning anger may turn away from Israel.’


Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine, which was dealt out to me, which the Lord made me suffer on the day of his burning anger?


Dress in sackcloth and lament,  you priests; wail,  you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.


Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. Roll in the dust,  you leaders of the flock. Because the days of your slaughter have come, you will fall and become shattered like a precious vase.


Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in sorrow for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they have been taken from you into exile.





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