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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.

KJV

Super hoc accingite vos ciliciis ; plangite, et ululate : quia non est aversa ira furoris Domini a nobis.

Vulgate

ἐπὶ τούτοις περιζώσασθε σάκκους καὶ κόπτεσθε καὶ ἀλαλάξατε, διότι οὐκ ἀπεστράφη ὁ θυμὸς Κυρίου ἀφ’ ὑμῶν.

LXX

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

ASV

עַל זֹ֛את חִגְר֥וּ שַׂקִּ֖ים סִפְד֣וּ וְ/הֵילִ֑ילוּ כִּ֥י לֹא שָׁ֛ב חֲר֥וֹן אַף יְהֹוָ֖ה מִמֶּֽ/נּוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הֵילִ֖ילוּ
hylylv
verb · 31×
וֹ
v
noun · 275×
זֹּ֔את
z't
pronoun · 604×
חֲר֥וֹן
chrvn
noun · 41×
חָג֖וּר
chgvr
verb · 44×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִּסְפְּדוּ
yspdv
verb · 32×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
שַׂקִּ֔ים
shqym
noun · 48×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Hab 1:6 — For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
  • Isa 3:24 — And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; a
  • Isa 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
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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:
  • Isa 32:11 — Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
  • Jas 5:1 — Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 25:36 — A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
  • Jer 49:3 — Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his prin
  • 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
  • Rom 4:15 — Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.