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Jeremiah 4:8

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Jeremiah 4:8 · King James Version

In other versions

  • For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

    ASV

  • For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

    BBE

  • For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.

    DBY

  • For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.

    WEB

  • For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.

    YLT

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

    ENG

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

    WBT

  • So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

    BSB

In context

6Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

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

9And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

10Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

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