Jeremiah 4:8

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For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

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  • Isa 22:12 : 12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn as for an only son, with bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
  • Isa 32:11 : 11 Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you who feel secure! Strip yourselves bare and put on sackcloth around your waists.
  • Isa 10:4 : 4 There will be nothing left but to bow down among prisoners or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, His anger has not turned away, and His hand is still stretched out.
  • Isa 5:25 : 25 Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against His people. He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. The mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, His anger has not turned away; His hand is still stretched out.
  • Isa 9:12 : 12 But the people have not returned to him who struck them, nor have they sought the LORD Almighty.
  • Isa 9:17 : 17 For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.
  • Num 25:4 : 4 The LORD said to Moses, 'Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel.'
  • Ps 78:49 : 49 He unleashed His burning anger, fury, rage, and hostility—a band of destroying angels.
  • Isa 13:6 : 6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
  • Isa 15:2-3 : 2 They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off. 3 In its streets, they wear sackcloth. On its rooftops and public squares, everyone wails, falling down in tears.
  • Jer 30:24 : 24 The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He fully accomplishes the purposes of His heart. In the days to come, you will understand this.
  • Jer 48:20 : 20 Moab is put to shame, for it is shattered. Wail and cry out! Proclaim at the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.
  • Ezek 21:12 : 12 And when they ask you, 'Why are you groaning?' you are to say, 'Because of the news that is coming; every heart will melt, every hand will go weak, every spirit will grow faint, and every knee will turn to water. Behold, it is coming, and it will happen,' declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Ezek 30:2 : 2 Son of man, prophesy and say: 'This is what the Lord God says: Wail, 'Alas for the day!'
  • Joel 2:12-13 : 12 Even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning. 13 Tear open your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and he relents from sending calamity.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 8Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

  • 7A lion has come out of his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has left his place to turn your land into a waste. Your cities will be ruined, without inhabitants.

  • Jer 25:37-38
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    37The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

    38Like a lion leaving its lair, He has left His den, for their land has become a desolation because of the oppressor's wrath and the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 26O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn as for an only son, with bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

  • 8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He made them an object of horror, devastation, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

  • Mic 1:8-9
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    8Because of this, I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like jackals and mourn like ostriches.

    9For her wound is incurable; it has even reached Judah. It has reached the gates of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.

  • 28Because of this, the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark. For I have spoken, I have purposed, and I will not relent or turn back from it.

  • 15Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • 9On that day, declares the LORD, the heart of the king and the officials will fail; the priests will be horrified, and the prophets will be astonished.

  • 12Even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

  • 6So my fury and my anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, making them a desolate ruin, as they are today.

  • 12In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.

  • 11The LORD has exhausted His wrath and poured out His fierce anger; He kindled a fire in Zion, consuming its foundations.

  • 4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskin of your hearts, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my wrath will break out like a fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your wicked deeds.

  • 25Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against His people. He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. The mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, His anger has not turned away; His hand is still stretched out.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”'

    19'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.'

  • 9See, the day of the LORD is coming—a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and to destroy the sinners within it.

  • Mic 2:3-4
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    3Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'I am planning disaster against this family, from which you cannot free your necks, nor will you walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.'

    4On that day, they will take up a taunt against you and wail with bitter lament, saying: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's inheritance is divided. How it has been taken away from me! He removes our fields and gives them to traitors.'

  • Jer 4:17-18
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    17They surround her like men guarding a field because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD.

    18Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

  • 16Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord says: There will be wailing in all the open squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Woe, woe!' They will summon the farmer to mourning and professional mourners to lamentation.

  • Zeph 1:14-15
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    14The great day of the Lord is near, near and rapidly approaching. The sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; there, even the mighty warrior cries out.

    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.

  • 13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

  • Jer 9:9-10
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    9I will raise weeping and wailing for the mountains and a dirge for the pastures in the wilderness, because they are burned up and desolate; no one passes through, and cattle cannot be heard anymore—birds of the sky and animals alike have fled and are gone.

    10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • 26I looked, and behold, the fertile land was a wilderness, and all its cities were torn down before the LORD, in the heat of His fierce anger.

  • 6Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

  • 7Perhaps they will bring their plea before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way, for great are the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

  • 6'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

  • 22Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.

  • 29Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise a lament on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and abandoned the generation of his wrath.

  • 10'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'

  • 8Therefore, wait for me, declares the LORD, until the day I rise to testify. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation—all the burning heat of my anger. For in the fire of my jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed.

  • 14Therefore, the LORD has kept the disaster in store and brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything He does, yet we have not obeyed His voice.

  • 17I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

  • 11I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand snatched from the burning, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

  • 21Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.

  • 17Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'

  • 2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. In his wrath, he has torn down the fortresses of the daughter of Judah, bringing them down to the ground. He has defiled her kingdom and its rulers.

  • 4The LORD said to him, 'Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark a sign on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable things being done within it.'

  • 14Then the LORD said to me, 'From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.'

  • 20Disaster upon disaster is announced, for the whole land is devastated. Suddenly, my tents are ruined, my curtains in a moment.

  • 2Before the decree takes effect, before the day passes like chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord comes upon you, before the day of the Lord's anger comes upon you.

  • 19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.