Jeremiah 4:8
King James Version (KJV)
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
In context
6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
Jeremiah 4:8 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
- WEB World English Bible
- For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD hasn’t turned back from us.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.