Jeremiah 4:23-28

Anguish over Judah's Desolation

23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was i without form and void;
j and to the heavens, and they had no light.
 24 I looked on k the mountains, and behold, they were quaking,
and all the hills moved to and fro.
 25 l I looked, and behold, there was no man,
and all the birds of the air had fled.
 26 I looked, and behold, the m fruitful land was a desert,
and all its cities were laid in ruins
before the Lord, before n his fierce anger.

27 For thus says the Lord, "The whole land shall be a desolation; o yet I will not make a full end.

28 p "For this the earth shall mourn,
q and the heavens above be dark;
for I have spoken; I have purposed;
r I have not relented, nor will I turn back."

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 1:2
    The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:30
    They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.
  3. Cross References
    Nahum 1:5
    The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.
  4. Cross References
    Zephaniah 1:3
    I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the rubble with the wicked. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth," declares the Lord.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 107:34
    A fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 4:8
    For this put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:10
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    Ezekiel 11:13
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  8. Cross References
    Jeremiah 12:4
    How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, "He will not see our latter end.
    Hosea 4:3
    Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 50:3
    I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.
  10. Cross References
    Numbers 23:19
    God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
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