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Jeremiah 4

Jer. 4:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Fora this shall the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
mourn
'abal (Hebrew #56)
to bewail
KJV usage: lament, mourn.
Pronounce: aw-bal'
Origin: a primitive root
, and the heavens
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
above
ma`al (Hebrew #4605)
properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.
KJV usage: above, exceeding(-ly), forward, on (X very) high, over, up(-on, -ward), very.
Pronounce: mah'al
Origin: from 5927
be black
qadar (Hebrew #6937)
to be ashy, i.e. dark-colored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
KJV usage: be black(-ish), be (make) dark(-en), X heavily, (cause to) mourn.
Pronounce: kaw-dar'
Origin: a primitive root
: because I have spoken
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
it, I have purposed
zamam (Hebrew #2161)
to plan, usually in a bad sense
KJV usage: consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
Pronounce: zaw-mam'
Origin: a primitive root
it, and will not repent
nacham (Hebrew #5162)
properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself)
KJV usage: comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).
Pronounce: naw-kham'
Origin: a primitive root
, neither will I turn back
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
from it.
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Hos. 4:3• 3For this shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. (Hos. 4:3)

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the earth.
Jer. 4:23‑26• 23I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.
 24I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently.
 25I beheld, and lo, man was not, and all the fowl of the heavens were fled.
 26I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before his fierce anger. (Jer. 4:23‑26)
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Jer. 12:4• 4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of all the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts and the birds perish; for they say, He will not see our end. (Jer. 12:4)
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Jer. 23:10• 10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of execration the land mourneth. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up; for their course is evil, and their force is not right. (Jer. 23:10)
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Isa. 24:4• 4The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish. (Isa. 24:4)
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Isa. 33:8‑9• 8The highways are desolate, the wayfaring man ceaseth. He hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
 9The land mourneth, it languisheth; Lebanon is ashamed, is withered; the Sharon is become as a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped. (Isa. 33:8‑9)
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Hos. 4:3• 3For this shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. (Hos. 4:3)
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Joel 1:10• 10The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. (Joel 1:10)
the heavens.
Isa. 5:30• 30and they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if one look upon the earth, behold darkness and distress, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. (Isa. 5:30)
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Isa. 34:4• 4And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered fruit from the fig-tree. (Isa. 34:4)
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Isa. 50:3• 3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. (Isa. 50:3)
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Joel 2:30‑31• 30And I will shew wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
 31The sun shall be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come. (Joel 2:30‑31)
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Matt. 27:45• 45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour; (Matt. 27:45)
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Mark 15:33• 33And when the sixth hour was come, there came darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour; (Mark 15:33)
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Luke 23:44• 44And it was about the sixth hour, and there came darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. (Luke 23:44)
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Rev. 6:12• 12And I saw when it opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as hair sackcloth, and the whole moon became as blood, (Rev. 6:12)
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Jer. 7:16• 16And thou, pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, and make not intercession to me; for I will not hear thee. (Jer. 7:16)
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Jer. 14:11‑12• 11And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
 12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer up burnt-offering and oblation, I will not accept them: for I will consume them by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence. (Jer. 14:11‑12)
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Jer. 15:1‑9• 1And Jehovah said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my soul would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
 2And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.
 3For I will visit them with four kinds of punishments, saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and dogs to tear, and the fowl of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
 4And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
 5For who shall have pity upon thee, Jerusalem? and who shall bemoan thee? and who shall turn aside to ask after thy welfare?
 6Thou hast cast me off, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward; and I have stretched out my hand against thee, and will destroy thee: I am become weary of repenting.
 7And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave of children and destroy my people: they have not returned from their ways.
 8Their widows are increased to me more than the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a spoiler at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall upon her suddenly.
 9She that hath borne seven languisheth, she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it is yet day; she is put to shame and confounded. And the residue of them will I give up to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 15:1‑9)
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Num. 23:19• 19*God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent. Shall he say and not do? and shall he speak and not make it good? (Num. 23:19)
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1 Sam. 15:29• 29And also the Hope of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent. (1 Sam. 15:29)
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Isa. 14:24‑27• 24Jehovah of hosts hath sworn saying, Assuredly as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, it shall stand:
 25to break the Assyrian in my land; and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot; and his yoke shall depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
 26This is the counsel which is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the hand which is stretched out upon all the nations.
 27For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? (Isa. 14:24‑27)
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Isa. 46:10‑11• 10declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
 11calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. (Isa. 46:10‑11)
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Ezek. 24:14• 14I Jehovah have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, nor will I repent. According to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 24:14)
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Hos. 13:14• 14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death: where, O death, are thy plagues? where, O Sheol, is thy destruction? Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. (Hos. 13:14)
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Eph. 1:9,11• 9having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself
 11in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will, (Eph. 1:9,11)
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Heb. 7:21• 21(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, *Thou* art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;) (Heb. 7:21)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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 therefrom.