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Jeremiah 4:28

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

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ASV

For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

KJV

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 from it.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
זֹאת֙zoTthisH2063 →
תֶּאֱבַ֣לte.'e.Valit will mournH56 →
הָאָ֔רֶץha.'A.retzthe earthH776 →
וְקָדְר֥וּve.ka.de.Ruand they will be darkH6937 →
הַשָּׁמַ֖יִםha.sha.Ma.yimthe heavensH8064 →
מִמָּ֑עַלmi.Ma.'al<from> aboveH4605 →
עַ֤ל'alonH5921 →
כִּי־ki-forH3588 →
דִבַּ֙רְתִּי֙di.Bar.tiI have spokenH1696 →
זַמֹּ֔תִיza.Mo.tiI have resolvedH2161 →
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
נִחַ֖מְתִּיni.Cham.tiI have repentedH5162 →
וְלֹא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
אָשׁ֥וּב'a.ShuvI will turn backH7725 →
מִמֶּֽנָּה׃mi.Me.nahfrom itH4480 →

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Isaiah 14:27The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”Isaiah 50:3I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.Isaiah 5:30In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.Zechariah 8:14For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.Isaiah 33:8–9The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.Mark 15:33From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.Isaiah 24:4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.Ephesians 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in ChristJeremiah 7:16As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.Matthew 27:45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.Isaiah 14:24–27The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

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