Jeremiah 4:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?

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  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.
  • 2 Chr 36:3 : 3 Then the king of Egypt took the kingdom from him in Jerusalem, and put on the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
  • 2 Chr 36:6-7 : 6 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon. 7 And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.
  • 2 Chr 36:10 : 10 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 36:17 : 17 So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.
  • Jer 4:5-6 : 5 Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns. 6 Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.
  • Jer 4:19 : 19 My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
  • Jer 6:1 : 1 Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

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  • Jer 4:19-20
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    78%

    19 My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

    20 News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.

  • Isa 18:3
    76%

    3 All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.

  • Isa 21:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees:

    7 And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention.

    8 And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night:

  • Jer 5:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20 Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,

    21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • Ezek 7:14
    74%

    14 And he who has given a price for goods will not get them, for my wrath is on all of them.

  • Jer 6:17
    73%

    17 And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.

  • Isa 6:11
    73%

    11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

  • Jer 12:4
    73%

    4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • Job 39:25
    72%

    25 In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.

  • Zeph 1:16
    72%

    16 A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

  • Jer 10:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.

    21 For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.

  • Hab 1:2
    72%

    2 How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.

  • Neh 4:20
    72%

    20 Wherever you may be when the horn is sounded, come here to us; our God will be fighting for us.

  • Joel 2:1
    72%

    1 Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

  • Jer 4:22
    72%

    22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

  • Jer 4:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns.

    6 Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.

  • Isa 22:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

    5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

  • Ps 89:46
    71%

    46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

  • Jer 2:31
    71%

    31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

  • Isa 5:26
    71%

    26 And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.

  • Ps 4:2
    71%

    2 O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

  • Jer 17:15
    71%

    15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

  • 1 Cor 14:8
    71%

    8 For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?

  • Isa 42:14
    71%

    14 I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

  • Ezek 12:21
    70%

    21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ps 13:1
    70%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

  • Ps 10:1
    70%

    1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

  • Jer 9:19
    70%

    19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Jer 4:14
    70%

    14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

  • Jer 14:19
    70%

    19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

  • Hab 2:1
    70%

    1 I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.

  • Isa 22:1
    70%

    1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

  • Jer 4:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 Make this come to the minds of the nations, make a statement openly against Jerusalem, that attackers are coming from a far country and their voices will be loud against the towns of Judah.

    17 Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.

  • Ps 80:4
    70%

    4 O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

  • Ezek 21:1
    70%

    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Amos 3:6
    70%

    6 If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

  • Ps 94:3
    70%

    3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

  • Jer 8:19
    70%

    19 The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?

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    70%

    10 O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.

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    70%

    21 My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.

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    70%

    9 We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.

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    70%

    1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.