Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart. My heart is disquieted in me. I cannot hold my peace, because thou have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
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Numbers 10:9And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresses you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. And ye shall be remembered before LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
2 Kings 4:19And he said to his father, My head, my head. And he said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.
Psalms 16:2Thou [my soul] have said to LORD, Thou are my LORD. I have no good beyond thee.
Psalms 103:1Bless LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name.
Psalms 119:53Hot indignation has taken hold upon me because of the wicked who forsake thy law.
Psalms 146:1Praise ye LORD. Praise LORD, O my soul.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 4:6-19
Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 620.) 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste,… Read the whole commentary →