Jeremiah 4:8
For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord hasn't turned back from us.
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Psalms 78:49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,wrath, indignation, and trouble,and a band of destroying angels.
Isaiah 9:12The Syrians in front,and the Philistines behind;and they will devour Israel with open mouth.For all this, his anger is not turned away,but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah.For all this his anger is not turned away,but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 13:6Wail; for the day of the Lord is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 22:12In that day, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
Jeremiah 6:26"Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us."
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 →