Jeremiah 4:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The heavens

Because

General references

Isaiah 24:19

Mark 13:24

Bible References

The heavens

And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

And all the host of heaven will wear away,
And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll;
All their hosts will also wither away
As a leaf withers from the vine,
Or as one withers from the fig tree.

“I clothe the heavens with blackness
And make sackcloth their covering.”

“I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth,
Blood, fire and columns of smoke.

Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.

When the

sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the

ninth hour.

It was now about

the sixth hour, and darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour,

I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;

Because

“As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you.

So the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent;

Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Also the

Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind.”

The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

I, the Lord, have spoken; it is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry; according to your ways and according to your deeds I will judge you,” declares the Lord God.’”

Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?

O Death, where are your thorns?

O Sheol, where is your sting?

Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him

(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him,
“The Lord has sworn
And

will not change His mind,

‘You are a priest

forever’”);

General references

The earth is broken asunder,

The earth is split through,
The earth is shaken violently.

“But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light,