Bible in Basic English
"A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them."
— Jeremiah 4:12, Bible in Basic English
“Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.”
“a full wind from these shall come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them."”
“No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’”
“A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I will speak my judgments with them.”
And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder.
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;
A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.
See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.
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?
For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out evil from the hills of Ephraim: