Jeremiah 4:28

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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

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."

I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

Because

Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for [their] good.

Then Yahweh said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the 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 Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.'"

General references

The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

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