18 “Your (A)ways and your deeds
Have [a]brought these things to you.
This is your evil. How (B)bitter!
How it has touched your heart!”

Lament over Judah’s Devastation

19 (C)My [b]soul, my [c]soul! I am in anguish! [d]Oh, my heart!
My (D)heart is pounding in me;
I cannot be silent,
Because [e]you have heard, O my soul,
The (E)sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.
20 (F)Disaster on disaster is proclaimed,
For the (G)whole land is devastated;
Suddenly my (H)tents are devastated,
My curtains in an instant.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:18 Lit done
  2. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit inward parts
  3. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit inward parts
  4. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit The walls of my heart
  5. Jeremiah 4:19 Or I, my soul, heard