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

And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!

And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a fig-tree.

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

And I have given wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, Blood and fire, and columns of smoke.

And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,

And the sixth hour having come, darkness came over the whole land till the ninth hour,

And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land till the ninth hour,

And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,

Because

And thou dost not pray for this people, Nor lift up for them crying and prayer, Nor intercede with Me, for I hear thee not.

And Jehovah saith unto me: Thou dost not pray for this people for good,

And Jehovah saith unto me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people, Send from before My face, and they go out.

God is not a man -- and lieth, And a son of man -- and repenteth! Hath He said -- and doth He not do it? And spoken -- and doth He not confirm it?

and also, the Pre-eminence of Israel doth not lie nor repent, for He is not a man to be penitent.'

Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts, saying, 'As I thought -- so hath it not been? And as I counselled -- it standeth;

Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, 'My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

I, Jehovah, hath spoken, It hath come, and I have done it, I do not free, nor do I spare, nor do I repent, According to thy ways, and according to thine acts, they have judged thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where is thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, 'The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou art a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')

General references

Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.

'But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,