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

In that day they shall be so fierce upon them, as the sea. And if we look unto the land, behold, it shall be all darkness and sorrow. If we look to heaven: behold, it shall be dark with careful desperation.

All the stars of heaven shall be consumed, and the heaven shall fold together like a roll, and all the stars thereof shall fall, like as the leaves fall from the vines and fig trees.

As for heaven, I clothe it with darkness, and put as it were a sack upon it.

I will show wonders in heaven above, and tokens in the earth beneath: blood and fire, and the vapor of smoke.

From the sixth hour, was there darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

And when the sixth hour was come, darkness arose over all the earth, until the ninth hour.

And it was about the sixth hour. And there came a darkness over all the land, until the ninth hour,

And I beheld when he opened the sixth seal, and lo there was a great earthquake, and the sun was as black as sackcloth made of hair. And the moon waxed even as blood:

Because

"Therefore thou shalt not pray for this people; thou shalt neither give thanks, nor bid prayer for them: thou shalt make no intercession to me for them for in no wise will I hear thee.

Yea, even thus said the LORD unto me, "Thou shalt not pray to do this people good.

Then spake the LORD unto me, and said, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet have I no heart to this people. Drive them away, that they may go out of my sight.

The Lord God is not a man, that he can lie; neither the son of a man, that he can repent! Should he say, and not do? Or should he speak, and not make it good?

And thereto he that giveth victory to Israel, will not beguile nor repent: for he is not a man, that can repent."

The LORD of Hosts hath sworn an oath, saying: It shall come to pass as I have determined, and shall be fulfilled as I have devised.

In the beginning of a thing, I show the end thereof: and I tell before, things that are not yet come to pass. With one word is my device accomplished, and fulfilleth all my pleasure.

Even I the LORD have so devised: Yea, it is come thereto already, that I will do it. I will not go back, I will not spare, I will not be intreated: but according to thy ways and imaginations, thou shalt be punished, sayeth the LORD God.'"

had not I defended him from the grave, and delivered him from death. O death, I will be thy death: O hell, I will be thy sting.

And hath opened unto us the mystery of his will according to his pleasure, and purposed

Those priests were made without an oath: but this priest with an oath, by him that said unto him, "The Lord sware, and will not repent: Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

General references

The earth shall give a great crack, it shall have a sore ruin, and take a horrible fall.

Moreover, in those days after that tribulation, the sun shall wax dark, and the moon shall not give her light,