Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels are in pain, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Numbers 10:9If you go forth to war out of your land against the enemies that fight against you, you shall sound aloud with the trumpets, and there shall be a remembrance of you before the Lord your God, that you may be delivered out of the hands of your enemies.
2 Kings 4:19He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant: Take him, and carry him to his mother.
Psalms 16:2I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.
Psalms 103:1For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name.
Psalms 146:1I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.
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 →