Jeremiah Chapter 4

God’s call to Israel

4:1 If you will return, O Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, return to me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then shall you not remove.
4:2 And you shall swear, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here lives, in truthבֶּאֱמֶת‎
Transliteration: be’ĕmeṯ – stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness:—assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, faithfulness, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity, reliability. For more info click here, in judgment, and in righteousnessוּבִצְדָקָה‎
Transliteration: ûḇiṣḏāqâ For more info click here; and the nationsגּוֹיִם‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
4:3 Because so says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here to the men of of Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea For more info click here and Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4:4 Circumcise yourselves to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and take away the foreskins of your heart (idom for repent), y’all men Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea For more info click here and inhabitants of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here: lest my fury come out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

Judah exhorted to repentance

4:5 Declare y’all in Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea For more info click here, and publish in Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here; and say, Blow y’all the shofarשׁוֹפָר‎
Transliteration šôp̄ār Pronunciation sho-far’horn, trumpet ram’s horn – For more info click here in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defensed cities.
4:6 Set up the banner toward Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
4:7 The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nationsגּוֹיִם‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here is on his way; he has gone out from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, mourn and howl: for the fierce anger of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is not turned back from us.
4:9 And it shall so happen on that day, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, 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.
4:10 Then I said, Ah, Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, saying, y’all shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the soulהַנָּפֶשׁ
Transliteration:hannāp̄eš – feminine noun Meaning: the soul, the self, the life, the creature, the person, the appetite, the mind, the living being, the desire, the emotion, the passion For more info click here.
4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, A dry wind of the high places in the wildernessבַּמִּדְבָּר
Transliteration: bammiḏbār in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): — in the desert, in the south, in the speech, in the wilderness. For more info click here toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
4:12 Even a full wind from those places shall come to me: now also will I give sentence against them.
4:13 See, he shall come up like clouds, and his chariots shall be like a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! because we are spoiled.
4:14 O Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
4:15 Because a voice declares from Danמִדָּן
Transliteration: midān, “judgment” or “he judged”) was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilhah (Jacob’s fifth son). His mother, Bilhah, was Rachel’s handmaid, who becomes one of Jacob’s concubines, the tribe descended from Dan – a city in Dan, the most northern landmark of Palestine – For more info click here, and publishes affliction from mount Ephraimהר אפרים
or alternatively Mount of Ephraim, was the historical name for the central mountainous district of Israel once occupied by the Tribe of Ephraim (Joshua 17:15; 19:50; 20:7), extending from Bethel to the plain of Jezreel. In Joshua’s time (Joshua 17:18), approximately sometime between the 18th century BCE and the 13th century BCE, these hills were densely wooded. They were intersected by well-watered, fertile valleys, referred to in Jeremiah 50:19.
4:16 Make y’all mention to the nationsלַגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: lagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:— to the Gentiles, to the heathen, to the nations, to the people. For more info click here; look, publish against Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea For more info click here.
4:17 As keepers of a field, are they surround her; because she has been rebellious against me, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
4:18 Your wayדַּרְכֵּךְ‎
Transliteration: darkēḵ – your way, your road, your path, your route, your distance, your journey, your manner For more info click here and your deeds have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

Lamentation for Judah

4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofarשׁוֹפָר‎
Transliteration šôp̄ār Pronunciation sho-far’horn, trumpet ram’s horn – For more info click here, the alarm of war.
4:20 Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.
4:21 How long shall I see the banner, and hear the sound of the shofarשׁוֹפָר‎
Transliteration šôp̄ār Pronunciation sho-far’horn, trumpet ram’s horn – For more info click here?
4:22 Because my people are foolish, they haven’t known me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
4:23 I saw the earth, and, it was without form, and void; and the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם‎
Transliteration:haššāmayim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here, and they had no light.
4:24 I saw the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
4:25 I saw, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם‎
Transliteration:haššāmayim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here had fled.
4:26 I saw, and, lo, the fruitful place was awildernessהַמִּדְבָּר
Transliteration: hammiḏbār – in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here, and all the cities of it were broken down at the presence of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and by his fierce anger.
4:27 Because so has YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם‎
Transliteration:haššāmayim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
4:29 The whole city shall escape for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb on the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man live in it.
4:30 And when you are plundered, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.
4:31 Because I have heard a voice like of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.