Jeremiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Jeremiah 4 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
Jeremiah is not in PT1904.
1 If Israel will return to me, saith the Lord, he shall return: and if he will remove his abominations out of his mouth, and fear before me, and swear,
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2 The Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and righteousness, then shall nations bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.
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3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for yourselves, and sow not among thorns.
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4 Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, ye men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.
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5 Declare ye in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem: say ye, Sound the trumpet in the land; cry ye aloud: say ye, Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.
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6 Gather up [your wares] and flee to Zion: hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, and great destruction.
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7 The lion is gone up from his lair, he has roused [himself] to the destruction of the nations, and has gone forth out of his place, to make the land desolate; and the cities shall be destroyed, so as to be without inhabitant.
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8 For these things gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, and howl: for the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you.
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9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be amazed, and the prophets shall wonder.
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10 And I said, O sovereign Lord, verily thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, There shall be peace; whereas behold, the sword has reached even to their soul.
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11 At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, [There is] a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of my people is not to purity, nor to holiness.
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12 [But] a spirit of full vengeance shall come upon me; and now I declare my judgments against them.
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13 Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are in misery.
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14 Cleanse thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayest be saved: how long will thy grievous thoughts be within thee?
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15 For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of Mount Ephraim shall be heard of.
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16 Remind ye the nations; behold, they are come: proclaim [it] in Jerusalem, that bands are approaching from a land afar off, and have uttered their voice against the cities of Judah.
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17 As keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because thou, saith the Lord, hast neglected me.
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18 Thy ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee; this is thy wickedness, for [it is] bitter, for it has reached to thy heart.
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19 I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart; my soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn: I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction;
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20 for all the land is distressed: suddenly [my] tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been rent asunder.
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21 How long shall I see fugitives, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
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22 For the princes of my people have not known me, they are foolish and unwise children: they are wise to do evil, but [how] to do good they have not known.
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23 I looked upon the earth, and, behold, [it was] not; and to the sky, and there was no light in it.
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24 I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and [I saw] all the hills in commotion.
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25 I looked, and, behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were scared.
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26 I saw, and, behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burned with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.
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27 Thus saith the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a full end.
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28 For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above: for I have spoken, and I will not repent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back from it.
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29 The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no man dwelt in them.
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30 And what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet, and adorn thyself with golden ornaments; though thou adorn thine eyes with stibium, thy beauty [will be] in vain: thy lovers have rejected thee, they seek thy life.
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31 For I have heard thy groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, [saying], Woe is me! for my soul faints because of the slain.
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Cross references (31)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joel 2:12; Jeremiah 3:22; Ezekiel 43:9; Genesis 35:2; Jeremiah 3:1
- 2 Isaiah 65:16; Genesis 22:18; Jeremiah 9:24; 1 Corinthians 1:31; 2 Corinthians 10:17
- 3 Hosea 10:12; Luke 8:14; Luke 8:7; Galatians 6:7–8; Mark 4:18–19
- 4 Deuteronomy 10:16; Romans 2:28–29; Deuteronomy 30:6; Colossians 2:11; Jeremiah 9:26
- 5 Jeremiah 8:14; Joshua 10:20; Jeremiah 6:1; Hosea 8:1; Amos 3:6
- 6 Jeremiah 50:2; Jeremiah 1:13–15; Jeremiah 51:27; Jeremiah 6:22; Jeremiah 4:21
- 7 Isaiah 6:11; Ezekiel 26:7–10; Isaiah 1:7; Jeremiah 2:15; Jeremiah 5:6
- 8 Jeremiah 6:26; Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 10:4; Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 32:11
- 9 Isaiah 22:3–5; Isaiah 29:9–10; Ezekiel 13:9–16; Isaiah 19:16; Jeremiah 37:19
- 10 Jeremiah 5:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12; Isaiah 37:35; Jeremiah 14:13–14; Romans 1:28
- 11 Hosea 13:15; Ezekiel 17:10; Isaiah 41:16; Luke 3:17; Jeremiah 8:19
- 12 Jeremiah 1:16; Ezekiel 5:8; Ezekiel 6:11–13; Ezekiel 7:8–9
- 13 Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 66:15; Lamentations 4:19; Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 5:28
- 14 James 4:8; Isaiah 55:7; Acts 8:22; Romans 1:21; Luke 11:39
- 15 Jeremiah 8:16; Judges 18:29; Joshua 17:15; Joshua 20:7; Jeremiah 6:1
- 16 Ezekiel 21:22; Jeremiah 5:15; Isaiah 39:3; Jeremiah 2:15; Jeremiah 31:10
- 17 Jeremiah 5:23; 2 Kings 25:1–4; Ezekiel 2:3–7; Luke 19:43–44; Isaiah 30:9
- 18 Psalm 107:17; Jeremiah 2:19; Jeremiah 2:17; Proverbs 1:31; Jeremiah 6:19
- 19 Habakkuk 3:16; Isaiah 22:4; Isaiah 16:11; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 9:10
- 20 Psalm 42:7; Joel 1:15; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Ezekiel 7:25–26; Matthew 10:28
- 21 2 Chronicles 36:6–7; 2 Chronicles 35:25; 2 Chronicles 36:10; Jeremiah 4:5–6; 2 Chronicles 36:3
- 22 1 Corinthians 14:20; Romans 16:19; Jeremiah 5:21; Romans 3:11; Hosea 4:6
- 23 Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24–25; Joel 3:15–16; Isaiah 13:10; Genesis 1:2
- 24 Ezekiel 38:20; Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 10:10; Nahum 1:5–6; Judges 5:4–5
- 25 Zephaniah 1:2–3; Jeremiah 12:4; Jeremiah 9:10; Hosea 4:3
- 26 Psalm 107:34; Micah 3:12; Jeremiah 14:2–6; Isaiah 7:20–25; Jeremiah 12:4
- 27 Jeremiah 46:28; Jeremiah 5:18; Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 30:11; Romans 9:27–29
- 28 Numbers 23:19; Jeremiah 12:4; Isaiah 50:3; Hosea 4:3; Joel 2:30–31
- 29 Isaiah 2:19–21; Jeremiah 4:7; Revelation 6:15–17; Isaiah 30:17; Jeremiah 39:4–6
- 30 Lamentations 1:2; 2 Kings 9:30; Lamentations 1:19; Isaiah 10:3; Ezekiel 16:36–41
- 31 Isaiah 1:15; Lamentations 1:17; Jeremiah 13:21; Jeremiah 18:21; Lamentations 2:21
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… fatherless, and negligent of the cause of the widows." And Jeremiah, in like manner: "They," he says, "who rule my people did not know me; they are senseless and imprudent children; they are wise to do evil, but to do well they have no knowledge."