| Jeremiah 4 - Versions
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| Jeremiah 4 Text (WEB)
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- "If you will return, Israel," says Yahweh, "if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;
- and you shall swear, 'As Yahweh lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
- For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.
- Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, 'Blow the trumpet in the land!' Cry aloud and say, 'Assemble yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!'
- Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."
- A 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 your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
- For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.
- "It shall happen at that day," says Yahweh, "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."
- Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, 'You shall have peace;' whereas the sword reaches to the heart."
- At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;
- a full wind from these shall come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them."
- Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
- Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
- "Tell the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, 'Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
- As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,'" says Yahweh.
- "Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."
- My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
- Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.
- How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
- "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
- I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
- I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
- I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] before his fierce anger.
- For thus says Yahweh, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
- For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it."
- Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
- You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.
- For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], "Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers."
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| Jeremiah 4 Text (Hebrew)
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- אם־תשוב ישראל נאם־יהוה אלי תשוב ואם־תסיר שקוציך מפני ולא תנוד׃
- ונשבעת חי־יהוה באמת במשפט ובצדקה והתברכו בו גוים ובו יתהללו׃ ס
- כי־כה אמר יהוה לאיש יהודה ולירושלם נירו לכם ניר ואל־תזרעו אל־קוצים׃
- המלו ליהוה והסרו ערלות לבבכם איש יהודה וישבי ירושלם פן־תצא כאש חמתי ובערה ואין מכבה מפני רע מעלליכם׃
- הגידו ביהודה ובירושלם השמיעו ואמרו שופר בארץ קראו מלאו ואמרו האספו ונבואה אל־ערי המבצר׃
- שאו־נס ציונה העיזו אל־תעמדו כי רעה אנכי מביא מצפון ושבר גדול׃
- עלה אריה מסבכו ומשחית גוים נסע יצא ממקמו לשום ארצך לשמה עריך תצינה מאין יושב׃
- על־זאת חגרו שקים ספדו והילילו כי לא־שב חרון אף־יהוה ממנו׃ ף
- והיה ביום־ההוא נאם־יהוה יאבד לב־המלך ולב השרים ונשמו הכהנים והנביאים יתמהו׃
- ואמר אהה אדני יהוה אכן השא השאת לעם הזה ולירושלם לאמר שלום יהיה לכם ונגעה חרב עד־הנפש׃
- בעת ההיא יאמר לעם־הזה ולירושלם רוח צח שפיים במדבר דרך בת־עמי לוא לזרות ולוא להבר׃
- רוח מלא מאלה יבוא לי עתה גם־אני אדבר משפטים אותם׃
- הנה כעננים יעלה וכסופה מרכבותיו קלו מנשרים סוסיו אוי לנו כי שדדנו׃
- כבסי מרעה לבך ירושלם למען תושעי עד־מתי תלין בקרבך מחשבות אונך׃
- כי קול מגיד מדן ומשמיע און מהר אפרים׃
- הזכירו לגוים הנה השמיעו על־ירושלם נצרים באים מארץ המרחק ויתנו על־ערי יהודה קולם׃
- כשמרי שדי היו עליה מסביב כי־אתי מרתה נאם־יהוה׃
- דרךך ומעלליך עשו אלה לך זאת רעתך כי מר כי נגע עד־לבך׃ ס
- מעי מעי קירות לבי המה־לי לבי לא אחריש כי קול שופר נפשי תרועת מלחמה׃
- שבר על־שבר נקרא כי שדדה כל־הארץ פתאם שדדו אהלי רגע יריעתי׃
- עד־מתי אראה־נס אשמעה קול שופר׃ ס
- כי אויל עמי אותי לא ידעו בנים סכלים המה ולא נבונים המה חכמים המה להרע ולהיטיב לא ידעו׃
- ראיתי את־הארץ והנה־תהו ובהו ואל־השמים ואין אורם׃
- ראיתי ההרים והנה רעשים וכל־הגבעות התקלקלו׃
- ראיתי והנה אין האדם וכל־עוף השמים נדדו׃
- ראיתי והנה הכרמל המדבר וכל־עריו נתצו מפני יהוה מפני חרון אפו׃ ס
- כי־כה אמר יהוה שממה תהיה כל־הארץ וכלה לא אעשה׃
- על־זאת תאבל הארץ וקדרו השמים ממעל על כי־דברתי זמתי ולא נחמתי ולא־אשוב ממנה׃
- מקול פרש ורמה קשת ברחת כל־העיר באו בעבים ובכפים עלו כל־העיר עזובה ואין־יושב בהן איש׃
- שדוד מה־תעשי כי־תלבשי שני כי־תעדי עדי־זהב כי־תקרעי בפוך עיניך לשוא תתיפי מאסו־בך עגבים נפשך יבקשו׃
- כי קול כחולה שמעתי צרה כמבכירה קול בת־ציון תתיפח תפרש כפיה אוי־נא לי כי־עיפה נפשי להרגים׃ ף
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| Jeremiah 4 Text (Latin)
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- Si reverteris, Israël, ait Dominus, ad me convertere : si abstuleris offendicula tua a facie mea, non commoveberis.
- Et jurabis : Vivit Dominus ! in veritate, et in judicio, et in justitia : et benedicent eum gentes, ipsumque laudabunt.
- Hæc enim dicit Dominus viro Juda et Jerusalem : Novate vobis novale, et nolite serere super spinas.
- Circumcidimini Domino, et auferte præputia cordium vestrorum, viri Juda, et habitatores Jerusalem, ne forte egrediatur ut ignis indignatio mea, et succendatur, et non sit qui extinguat, propter malitiam cogitationum vestrarum.
- Annuntiate in Juda, et in Jerusalem auditum facite : loquimini, et canite tuba in terra, clamate fortiter, et dicite : Congregamini, et ingrediamur civitates munitas.
- Levate signum in Sion, confortamini, nolite stare, quia malum ego adduco ab aquilone, et contritionem magnam.
- Ascendit leo de cubili suo, et prædo gentium se levavit : egressus est de loco suo ut ponat terram tuam in solitudinem : civitates tuæ vastabuntur, remanentes absque habitatore.
- Super hoc accingite vos ciliciis, plangite, et ululate, quia non est aversa ira furoris Domini a nobis.
- Et erit in die illa, dicit Dominus : peribit cor regis, et cor principum, et obstupescent sacerdotes, et prophetæ consternabuntur.
- Et dixi : Heu ! heu ! heu ! Domine Deus, ergone decepisti populum istum et Jerusalem, dicens : Pax erit vobis : et ecce pervenit gladius usque ad animam ?
- In tempore illo dicetur populo huic et Jerusalem : Ventus urens in viis quæ sunt in deserto viæ filiæ populi mei, non ad ventilandum et ad purgandum.
- Spiritus plenus ex his veniet mihi, et nunc ego loquar judicia mea cum eis.
- Ecce quasi nubes ascendet : et quasi tempestas currus ejus, velociores aquilis equi illius. Væ nobis ! quoniam vastati sumus.
- Lava a malitia cor tuum, Jerusalem, ut salva fias : usquequo morabuntur in te cogitationes noxiæ ?
- Vox enim annuntiantis a Dan, et notum facientis idolum de monte Ephraim.
- Dicite gentibus : Ecce auditum est in Jerusalem custodes venire de terra longinqua, et dare super civitates Juda vocem suam :
- quasi custodes agrorum facti sunt super eam in gyro, quia me ad iracundiam provocavit, dicit Dominus.
- Viæ tuæ et cogitationes tuæ fecerunt hæc tibi : ista malitia tua, quia amara, quia tetigit cor tuum.
- Ventrem meum, ventrem meum doleo, sensus cordis mei turbati sunt in me. Non tacebo, quoniam vocem buccinæ audivit anima mea, clamorem prælii.
- Contritio super contritionem vocata est : et vastata est omnis terra, repente vastata sunt tabernacula mea, subito pelles meæ.
- Usquequo videbo fugientem, audiam vocem buccinæ ?
- quia stultus populus meus me non cognovit. Filii insipientes sunt et vecordes : sapientes sunt ut faciant mala, bene autem facere nescierunt.
- Aspexi terram, et ecce vacua erat et nihili : et cælos, et non erat lux in eis.
- Vidi montes, et ecce movebantur : et omnes colles conturbati sunt.
- Intuitus sum, et non erat homo : et omne volatile cæli recessit.
- Aspexi, et ecce Carmelus desertus, et omnes urbes ejus destructæ sunt a facie Domini, et a facie iræ furoris ejus.
- Hæc enim dicit Dominus : Deserta erit omnis terra, sed tamen consummationem non faciam.
- Lugebit terra, et mœrebunt cæli desuper, eo quod locutus sum. Cogitavi, et non pœnituit me, nec aversus sum ab eo.
- A voce equitis et mittentis sagittam fugit omnis civitas : ingressi sunt ardua, et ascenderunt rupes : universæ urbes derelictæ sunt, et non habitat in eis homo.
- Tu autem vastata, quid facies ? Cum vestieris te coccino, cum ornata fueris monili aureo, et pinxeris stibio oculos tuos, frustra componeris : contempserunt te amatores tui, animam tuam quærent.
- Vocem enim quasi parturientis audivi, angustias ut puerperæ : vox filiæ Sion intermorientis, expandentisque manus suas : Væ mihi quia defecit anima mea propter interfectos !
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| Jeremiah 4 Text (KJV)
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- If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
- And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
- For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
- Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
- Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
- The 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.
- For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
- And 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.
- Then 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.
- At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
- Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
- Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
- O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
- For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
- Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
- As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
- Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
- My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
- Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
- How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
- For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
- I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
- I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
- For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
- For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
- The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
- And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
- For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
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