Jeremiah 4:8
What does Jeremiah 4:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 4:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.
Context
v.7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
v.8This passage
v.9And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah, 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Joel 2:12
Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
- Jeremiah 48:20
Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell ye it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
- Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
- Ezekiel 21:12
Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh.
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