Verse 30

Jeremiah 4:30

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30 And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.

Original Language Text

hebrew

ו/אתי וְ/אַ֨תְּ שָׁד֜וּד מַֽה תַּעֲשִׂ֗י כִּֽי תִלְבְּשִׁ֨י שָׁנִ֜י כִּי תַעְדִּ֣י עֲדִי זָהָ֗ב כִּֽי תִקְרְעִ֤י בַ/פּוּךְ֙ עֵינַ֔יִ/ךְ לַ/שָּׁ֖וְא תִּתְיַפִּ֑י מָאֲסוּ בָ֥/ךְ עֹגְבִ֖ים נַפְשֵׁ֥/ךְ יְבַקֵּֽשׁוּ

English Translation

And you, what will you do when you wear crimson, when you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, when you paint your eyes in vain? Those who desire you will despise you; your soul will seek them.

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Chapter 4 Context

1 If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away y... Focus ↗

2 And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the... Focus ↗

3 For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed... Focus ↗

4 Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come... Focus ↗

5 Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying... Focus ↗

6 Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I wil... Focus ↗

7 A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his... Focus ↗

8 For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not tu... Focus ↗

9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, a... Focus ↗

10 Then said I, Ah, Lord God (Elohim)! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jer... Focus ↗

11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops... Focus ↗

12 A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them. Focus ↗

13 See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quic... Focus ↗

14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purp... Focus ↗

15 For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out evil from the hills of Ephraim: Focus ↗

16 Make this come to the minds of the nations, make a statement openly against Jerusalem, that attacker... Focus ↗

17 Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me... Focus ↗

18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter,... Focus ↗

19 My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be qu... Focus ↗

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

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

22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sens... Focus ↗

23 Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no... Focus ↗

24 Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about. Focus ↗

25 Looking, I saw that there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had gone in flight. Focus ↗

26 Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lor... Focus ↗

27 For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction comple... Focus ↗

28 The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, a... Focus ↗

29 All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover... Focus ↗

30 And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make y...

31 A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth t... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Jeremiah
Chapter: Chapter 4 (31 verses)
Version: Bible in Basic English

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