OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Jeremiah 4:21

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How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

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Jeremiah 4:18–24

18

“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.

20

Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.

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How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

22

“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 they don’t know how to do good.”

23

I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.

24

I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.

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