American Standard Version
"For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us. "
— Jeremiah 4:8, American Standard Version
“For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.”
“For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.”
“So put on sackcloth! Mourn and wail, saying,‘The fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us!’””
“For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.”
“For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.”
“For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.”
Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.
And it shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah, 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.
Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life.
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;