Jeremiah 4:11

Good News Translation (US Version)

The time is coming when the people of Jerusalem will be told that a scorching wind is blowing in from the desert toward them. It will not be a gentle wind that only blows away the chaff—

Cross References

Hosea 13:15

Even though Israel flourishes like weeds, I will send a hot east wind from the desert, and it will dry up their springs and wells. It will take away everything of value.

Ezekiel 17:10

Yes, it is planted, but will it live and grow? Won't it wither when the east wind strikes it? Won't it wither there where it is growing?”

Luke 3:17

He has his winnowing shovel with him, to thresh out all the grain and gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out.”

Matthew 3:12

He has his winnowing shovel with him to thresh out all the grain. He will gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out.”

Hosea 13:3

And so these people will disappear like morning mist, like the dew that vanishes early in the day. They will be like chaff which the wind blows from the threshing place, like smoke from a chimney.

Ezekiel 19:12

But angry hands pulled it up by the roots and threw it to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit. Its branches were broken off; they dried up and were burned.

Lamentations 4:6

My people have been punished even more than the inhabitants of Sodom, which met a sudden downfall at the hands of God.

Lamentations 4:3

Even a mother wolf will nurse her cubs, but my people are like ostriches, cruel to their young.

Lamentations 3:48

My eyes flow with rivers of tears at the destruction of my people.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with weeping; my soul is in anguish. I am exhausted with grief at the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the streets of the city.

Jeremiah 23:19

His anger is a storm, a furious wind that will rage over the heads of the wicked,

Jeremiah 14:17

The Lord commanded me to tell the people about my sorrow and to say: “May my eyes flow with tears day and night, may I never stop weeping, for my people are deeply wounded and are badly hurt.

Jeremiah 9:7

Because of this the Lord Almighty says, “I will refine my people like metal and put them to the test. My people have done evil— what else can I do with them?

Jeremiah 9:1

I wish my head were a well of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I could cry day and night for my people who have been killed.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen! Throughout the land I hear my people crying out, “Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is Zion's king no longer there?” The Lord, their king, replies, “Why have you made me angry by worshiping your idols and by bowing down to your useless foreign gods?”

Isaiah 64:6

All of us have been sinful; even our best actions are filthy through and through. Because of our sins we are like leaves that wither and are blown away by the wind.

Isaiah 41:16

You will toss them in the air; the wind will carry them off, and they will be scattered by the storm. Then you will be happy because I am your God; you will praise me, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 27:8

The Lord punished his people by sending them into exile. He took them away with a cruel wind from the east.

Isaiah 22:4

Now leave me alone to weep bitterly over all those of my people who have died. Don't try to comfort me.

Lamentations 4:10

The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

Psalm 11:6

He sends down flaming coals and burning sulfur on the wicked; he punishes them with scorching winds.

Jeremiah 4:12

the wind that comes at the Lord's command will be much stronger than that! It is the Lord himself who is pronouncing judgment on his people.

Jeremiah 13:24

The Lord will scatter you like straw that is blown away by the desert wind.

Habakkuk 1:6

I am bringing the Babylonians to power, those fierce, restless people. They are marching out across the world to conquer other lands.

Habakkuk 1:11

Then they sweep on like the wind and are gone, these men whose power is their god.”

Hosea 4:19

They will be carried away as by the wind, and they will be ashamed of their pagan sacrifices.