Jeremiah 4
1 “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
if to return: return Israel utterance LORD to(wards) me to return: return and if to turn aside: remove abomination your from face my and not to wander
2 and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
and to swear alive LORD in/on/with truth: true in/on/with justice and in/on/with righteousness and to bless in/on/with him nation and in/on/with him to boast: boast
3 For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
for thus to say LORD to/for man Judah and to/for Jerusalem to break to/for you fallow ground and not to sow to(wards) thorn
4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
to circumcise to/for LORD and to turn aside: remove foreskin heart your man Judah and to dwell Jerusalem lest to come out: issue like/as fire rage my and to burn: burn and nothing to quench from face: because evil deed your
5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’
to tell in/on/with Judah and in/on/with Jerusalem to hear: proclaim and to say (to blow *QK) trumpet in/on/with land: country/planet to call: call out to fill and to say to gather and to come (in): come to(wards) city [the] fortification
6 Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
to lift: raise ensign Zion [to] to seek refuge not to stand: stand for distress: harm I to come (in): bring from north and breaking great: large
7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
to ascend: rise lion from thicket his and to ruin nation to set out to come out: come from place his to/for to set: make land: country/planet your to/for horror: destroyed city your to desolate from nothing to dwell
8 For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.
upon this to gird sackcloth to mourn and to wail for not to return: turn back burning anger face: anger LORD from us
9 “It will happen at that day,” says Yahweh, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.”
and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it utterance LORD to perish heart [the] king and heart [the] ruler and be desolate: appalled [the] priest and [the] prophet to astounded
10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
and to say alas! Lord YHWH/God surely to deceive to deceive to/for people [the] this and to/for Jerusalem to/for to say peace: well-being to be to/for you and to touch sword till [the] soul: life
11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind blows from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse.
in/on/with time [the] he/she/it to say to/for people [the] this and to/for Jerusalem spirit: breath dazzling bareness in/on/with wilderness way: direction daughter people my not to/for to scatter and not to/for to purify
12 A full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
spirit: breath full from these to come (in): come to/for me now also I to speak: speak justice: judgement with them
13 Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
behold like/as cloud to ascend: rise and like/as whirlwind chariot his to lighten from eagle horse his woe! to/for us for to ruin
14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
to wash from distress: evil heart your Jerusalem because to save till how to lodge in/on/with entrails: among your plot evil: wickedness your
15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
for voice to tell from Dan and to hear: proclaim evil: trouble from mountain: mount (Mount) Ephraim
16 “Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
to remember to/for nation behold to hear: proclaim upon Jerusalem to watch to come (in): come from land: country/planet [the] distance and to give: cry out upon city Judah voice their
17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh.
like/as to keep: guard field to be upon her from around for [obj] me to rebel utterance LORD
18 “Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
way: conduct your and deed your to make: do these to/for you this distress: harm your for bitter for to touch till heart your
19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
belly my belly my (to wait: wait *QK) wall heart my to roar to/for me heart my not be quiet for voice: sound trumpet (to hear: hear *QK) soul: myself my shout battle
20 Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
breaking upon breaking to call: call out for to ruin all [the] land: country/planet suddenly to ruin tent my moment curtain my
21 How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
till how to see: see ensign to hear: hear voice: sound trumpet
22 “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
for fool(ish) people my [obj] me not to know son: child fool they(masc.) and not to understand they(masc.) wise they(masc.) to/for be evil and to/for be good not to know
23 I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
to see: see [obj] [the] land: country/planet and behold formlessness and void and to(wards) [the] heaven and nothing light their
24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
to see: see [the] mountain: mount and behold to shake and all [the] hill to lighten
25 I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.
to see: see and behold nothing [the] man and all bird [the] heaven to wander
26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.
to see: see and behold [the] plantation [the] wilderness and all city his to tear from face: before LORD from face: before burning anger face: anger his
27 For Yahweh says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
for thus to say LORD devastation to be all [the] land: country/planet and consumption not to make
28 For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
upon this to mourn [the] land: country/planet and be dark [the] heaven from above upon for to speak: speak to plan and not to be sorry: relent and not to return: repent from her
29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.
from voice: sound horseman and to shoot bow to flee all [the] city to come (in): come in/on/with cloud and in/on/with rock to ascend: rise all [the] city to leave: forsake and nothing to dwell in/on/with them man: anyone
30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
(and you(f. s.) *QK) to ruin what? to make: do for to clothe scarlet for to adorn ornament gold for to tear in/on/with color eye your to/for vanity: vain be beautiful to reject in/on/with you to lust soul: life your to seek
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
for voice like/as be weak: grieved to hear: hear distress like/as to be/bear firstborn voice daughter Zion to breathe to spread palm her woe! please to/for me for be faint soul: myself my to/for to kill
