Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trump, the alarm of war.

In Context

18“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

20Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:9When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.

2 Kings 4:19“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Psalms 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”

Psalms 103:1Of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.

Psalms 119:53Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.

Psalms 146:1Hallelujah! Praise the 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 →

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