Verse 22
Jeremiah 4:22
World English Bible, British Edition
22
“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish
children, and they have no understanding. They are skilful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do
good.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י אֱוִ֣יל עַמִּ֗/י אוֹתִ/י֙ לֹ֣א יָדָ֔עוּ בָּנִ֤ים סְכָלִים֙ הֵ֔מָּה וְ/לֹ֥א נְבוֹנִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה חֲכָמִ֥ים הֵ֨מָּה֙ לְ/הָרַ֔ע וּ/לְ/הֵיטִ֖יב לֹ֥א יָדָֽעוּ
English Translation
For they are foolish people; they do not know. They are sullen children; they are not understanding. They are wise for evil, but to do good they do not know.
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Chapter 4 Context
1
“If you will return, Israel,” says the LORD, “if you will return to me, and
if you will put away you...
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2
and you will swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in
righteousness. The nations wil...
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3
For the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break
up your fallow ground, and don’t sow...
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4
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your
heart, you men of Judah and i...
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5
Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet
in the land!’ Cry aloud and s...
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6
Set up a standard towards Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will
bring evil from the north, a...
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7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations.
He is on his way. He has gone out f...
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8
For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce
anger of the LORD hasn’t t...
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9
“It will happen at that day,” says the LORD, “that the heart of the king
will perish, along with the...
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10
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Surely you have greatly deceived
this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You...
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11
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem,
“A hot wind blows from the bare height...
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12
A full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgements
against them.”
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13
Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as
the whirlwind. His horses are swifter...
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14
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How
long will your evil thoughts...
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15
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of
Ephraim:
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16
“Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come
from a far country, and raise t...
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17
As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she
has been rebellious against me,’...
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18
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is
your wickedness, for it is bitte...
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19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart
trembles within me. I can’t hold my p...
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20
Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste.
Suddenly my tents are destr...
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21
How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
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22
“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish
children, and they have no understa...
23
I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens,
and they had no light.
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24
I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved
back and forth.
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25
I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had
fled.
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26
I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its
cities were broken down at the p...
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27
For the LORD says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will
not make a full end.
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28
For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because
I have spoken it. I have plan...
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29
Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They
go into the thickets and climb up o...
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30
You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe
yourself with scarlet, though y...
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31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of
her who gives birth to her firs...
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