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Yirmeyah 4:14-25 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

14. O Yerushalayim, wash thine lev from rah, that thou mayest be saved. Ad mosai (how long, how much longer) shall thy sinful machsh'vot lodge within thee?

15. For a kol (voice) declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil tidings from Mt Ephrayim.

16. Tell the Goyim; hinei, spread the news to Yerushalayim, that notzrim (besiegers) come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Yehudah.

17. As shomrim of a sadeh, they are against her all around; because she hath been rebellious against Me, saith Hashem.

18. Thy derech and thy deeds have brought these things upon thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is mar (bitter), for it hath touched upon thine lev.

19. My innards, my innards! I am pained at my very lev; my lev is pounding in me; I cannot keep silent, because thou hast heard, O my nefesh, the kol shofar (sound of the shofar), the teru'at milchamah (battle alarm of war).

20. Shever (destruction) follows after shever; for the whole land lies in ruins; suddenly are my ohalim destroyed, and my canopies rega.

21. Ad mosai (how long) shall I see the nes (banner), and hear the kol shofar?

22. For Ami is foolish, they have not known Me; they are stupid banim, and they have no understanding; they are chachamim to do evil, but to do good they have no da'as.

23. I beheld ha'aretz, and, hinei, it was tohu vavohu [Genesis 1:2]; and HaShomayim--there was no ohr.

24. I beheld the mountains, and, hinei, they quaked, and all the hills had crumbled.

25. I beheld, and, hinei, there was no adam, and kol oph HaShomayim fled away.

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