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Because of this gird yourselves with sackcloth,[a] lament and wail,
    for the burning anger[b] of Yahweh has not turned back from us.
And then on that day,” declares[c] Yahweh,
“the heart of the king and the heart of the officials will be destroyed,
    and the priests will be appalled,
    and the prophets will be astonished.”

10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It will be peace for you,’ while the sword reaches up to the throat.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:8 Hebrew “sackcloths”
  2. Jeremiah 4:8 Literally “the blaze of the nose”
  3. Jeremiah 4:9 Literally “a declaration of”