Jeremiah 4:12
in Jeremiah 4a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.
KJV
Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
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This verse in Jeremiah 4
Commentary
9 notes on this verseEven a full wind from those places shall come unto me,.... That is, a strong one, very vehement; or, "a wind which is fuller than these", as the Syriac version renders it; which is stronger than those winds which are fit for fanning and winnowing the chaff from the wheat.
This site's exposition
how completely You have deceived this people
on Jeremiah 4:10-12
Jeremiah cries that the LORD has deceived the people “by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats”. The promise of peace was the word of prophets speaking in the LORD's name without warrant. 1 Kings 22 shows the LORD letting lying prophets speak.
This site's exposition
a wind too strong for that
The Syriac, as Gill reports, reads a wind stronger than any breeze fit to winnow grain. The wind comes from the LORD, and with it come judgments against Judah. Babylon meets a destroying wind of its own at Jeremiah 51:1.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 11, 12.) In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A burning wind (or dew) in the ways that are in the desert. The ways of my people's children: not for winnowing, and not for purifying. A spirit full of these will come to me.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
), a strong and violent wind, blowing full upon them. This shall come to me, or rather for me; it shall come with commission from God and shall accomplish that for which he sends it; for this, as other stormy winds, fulfills his word.
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Some read it, Now will I do execution upon them, according to the doom formerly passed; and we are sure that the judgment of God is according to the truth, and the execution of that judgment. The lamentable effects of this judgment, upon the first alarm given of it.
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,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
full . . . from those places--rather, "a wind fuller (that is, more impetuous) than those winds" (which fan the corn) (Jer 4:11) [ROSENMULLER]. unto me--"for Me," as My instrument for executing My purpose. sentence--judgments against them (Jer 1:16).
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1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Or, as in the margin; i. e., a wind more full, more impetuous than those winds which serve for fanning and cleansing the grain. Unto me - Rather, for me: to perform my will.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
A full spirit of these retributions shall come to me. A full spirit A full spirit, that I will not retract and not repent. spirit (talant in O.F.)
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
of this people Concerning this people when they are all exiled.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ר֧וּחַ | ruach | a wind | H7307 → | 378 times |
| מָלֵ֛א | male' | [too] full | H4392 → | 64 times |
| מֵאֵ֖לֶּה | meeleh | for these [things] | H428 → | 746 times |
| יָ֣בוֹא | yavo' | it will come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| לִ֑י | li | for <the> me | ||
| עַתָּ֕ה | ʾatah | now | H6258 → | 433 times |
| גַּם־ | gam- | also | H1571 → | 769 times |
| אֲנִ֛י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| אֲדַבֵּ֥ר | ʾadaber | I will speak | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| מִשְׁפָּטִ֖ים | mishpatim | judgments | H4941 → | 422 times |
| אוֹתָֽם׃ | ʾotam | with them | H854 → | 929 times |
ר֧וּחַa wind
ruachH7307 →378 times
מָלֵ֛א[too] full
male'H4392 →64 times
מֵאֵ֖לֶּהfor these [things]
meelehH428 →746 times
יָ֣בוֹאit will come
yavo'H935 →2568 times
לִ֑יfor <the> me
li
עַתָּ֕הnow
ʾatahH6258 →433 times
גַּם־also
gam-H1571 →769 times
אֲנִ֛יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
אֲדַבֵּ֥רI will speak
ʾadaberH1696 →1141 times
מִשְׁפָּטִ֖יםjudgments
mishpatimH4941 →422 times
אוֹתָֽם׃with them
ʾotamH854 →929 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 1:16I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 19:4
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever…
- Jeremiah 7:9
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
- Acts 7:41
At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.
- Deuteronomy 28:20
The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking…
- Isaiah 2:8
Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
- Jeremiah 19:4
Through
Ezekiel 5:8Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
- Ezekiel 15:7
And I will set My face against them. Though they may have escaped the fire, yet another fire will consume them. And when I set My face against them, you will know that I…
- Jeremiah 21:13
Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
- Jeremiah 24:9
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.