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Jeremiah
Chapter
4
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"If you will return {shuwb - Qal imperfect}, O Israel,"
decreed
{n@'um} Jehovah/God,
"return
{shuwb}
And
be 'caused to turn away' {cuwr - Hiphil causative stem}
from
your 'filthy garments from sex orgies' {shiqquwts}
{means to get out of the phallic cult idolatry and fornication and
human sacrifice}
and
'remove it from my presence'
{paniym idiom: literally 'out of my face'},
then
I 'shall show compassion'/'will not remove' {nuwd}.
2
And you shall swear,
The
Jehovah/God lives,
in
truth,
in
judgment,
and
in righteousness;
and
the nations shall bless themselves in Him,
and
in Him shall they glory.
3
For thus said the Jehovah/God
to
the men of Judah and Jerusalem,
Break
up your fallow ground,
and
sow not among thorns.
4
Circumcise yourselves to the Jehovah/God,
and
take away the foreskins of your heart,
you
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.
5
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 defended cities.
6
Set up the standard toward Zion:
retire,
stay not:
for
I will bring evil from the north,
and
a great destruction.
7
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 your land desolate.
And your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl.
For the fierce anger of the Jehovah/God is not turned back from us.
9
And it shall come to pass at that day, said the Jehovah/God,
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.
10
Then said I,
Ah,
the Lord/'Adonay God/Jehovah!
surely
you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying,
You
shall have peace;
whereas
the sword reached unto the soul.
11
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.
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me.
Now also will I give sentence against them.
13
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.
14
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness,
that
you may be saved.
How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
15
For a voice declares from Dan,
and
publishes affliction from mount Ephraim.
16~~"Make you mention to the nations.
Behold,
publish against Jerusalem,
that
watchers come from a far country,
{from Daniel 4:13 RBT says these are angelic watchers
who do an angelic reconnaissance and judge}
and
give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
17~~As
keepers of a field,
are
they against her round about.
Because she has been rebellious against Me," said Jehovah/God.
18 Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you.
This
is your wickedness,
because
it is bitter,
because
it reaches unto your heart.
19~~My
emotions/bowels
{me`ah - idiom literally 'bowels' but is slang for emotions},
my
emotions/bowels {me`ah}!
I
am pained at my very 'right lobe'/heart
{emotions
are revolting and overcoming the mind}.
My 'right lobe'/heart makes a noise in me {is screaming!}.
I
cannot hold my peace
{lack of tranquility on the happiness spectrum},
because
you have heard,
O
my soul {nephesh},
the
sound of the trumpet,
the
alarm of war.
{Note: Emotions REACT to tragedy, the mind RESONDS to tragedy.}
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried.
For the whole land is spoiled.
Suddenly
are my tents spoiled,
and
my curtains in a moment.
21
How long shall I see the standard,
and
hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 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.
23
I beheld the earth, and, lo,
it
was without form, and void.
And the heavens, and they had no light.
24
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,
and
all the hills moved lightly.
25
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man,
and
all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness,
and
all the cities thereof were broken down
at
the presence of Jehovah/God,
and
by his fierce anger.
27
For thus has Jehovah/God said,
The
whole land shall be desolate;
yet
will I not make a full end.
28
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.
29
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.
30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do?
Though
you cloth yourself with crimson,
though
you deck yourself with ornaments of gold,
though
you rent your face with painting,
in
vain shall you make yourself fair;
your
lovers will despise you,
they
will seek your life.
31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail/'child birth',
and
the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child,
the
voice of the daughter of Zion,
that
bewails herself,
who
spreads her hands, saying,
Woe
is me now!
For my soul is wearied because of murderers.
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