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Jeremiah 4 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:1 - If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:2 - And thou hast sworn -- Jehovah liveth, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:3 - For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 - Declare in Judah, and in Jerusalem sound, And say ye, 'Blow a trumpet in the land,' Call ye fully, and say ye: 'Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced city.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:6 - Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 - For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:9 - And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah: 'Perish doth the heart of the king, And the heart of the princes, And astonished have been the priests, And the prophets do wonder.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:10 - And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, Surely thou hast entirely forgotten this people and Jerusalem, saying, Peace is for you, And struck hath a sword unto the soul!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11 - At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: 'A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:12 - A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:13 - Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Wo to us, for we have been spoiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:14 - Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:15 - For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 - Make ye mention to the nations, Lo, sound ye to Jerusalem: 'Besiegers are coming from the land afar off, And they give forth against cities of Judah their voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:17 - As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of Jehovah.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:18 - Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This is thy vexation, for it is bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.

Lament over Judah's Devastation

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:19 - My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:20 - Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, For spoiled hath been all the land, Suddenly spoiled have been my tents, In a moment -- my curtains.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:21 - Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:22 - For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:23 - I looked to the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:24 - I have looked to the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:25 - I have looked, and lo, man is not, And all fowls of the heavens have fled.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:26 - I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place is a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:27 - For thus said Jehovah: All the land is a desolation, but a completion I make not.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:28 - For this doth the land mourn, And black have been the heavens above, because I have spoken -- I have purposed, And I have not repented, Nor do I turn back from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:29 - From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30 - And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself with ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:31 - For a voice as of a sick woman I have heard, Distress, as of one bringing forth a first-born, The voice of the daughter of Zion, She bewaileth herself, she spreadeth out her hands, 'Wo to me now, for weary is my soul of slayers!'
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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