Jeremiah 4:8 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 4:8

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.

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ASV

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

WEB

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

YLT

For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.

DBT

For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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28 verses on the floor

Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:4
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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To affect them the more with the greatness of the desolation that was coming, the prophet does himself bitterly lament it, and sympathize with his people in the calamities it brought upon them, and the plunge it brought them to, representing it as a reduction of the world to its first chaos,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): " For this gird yourself with sackcloth, lament and howl, " that is, "you will do so. When the cry is made through the kingdom, Arm, arm! all will be seized with a consternation, and all put into confusion.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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