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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 4:28 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 4:28 |
King James |
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
For this--on account of the desolations just described (Isa 5:30; Hos 4:3).
not repent-- (Num 23:19). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For ... - Because of this doom upon Judah.
I have purposed it - The Septuagint arrangement restores the parallelism:
For I have spoken, and will not repent,
I have purposed, and will not turn back from it. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
repent
(See Scofield) - (Zac 8:14). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Mourn - Expressions to set forth the dreadfulness of the judgment; he makes the elements to personate mourners. |
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: