“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.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 4:18 in context
Jeremiah 4:15–21
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For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
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“Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
17
As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says the LORD.
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“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.”
19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
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Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
21
How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
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