Jeremiah 4:28

Translations

Modern

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

Traditional

For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

Literal

For the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark; for I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not repent, and I will not turn back from it.”

Latin

Lugebit terra, et mœrebunt cæli desuper, eo quod locutus sum. Cogitavi, et non pœnituit me, nec aversus sum ab eo.

Original

Hebrew

English

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

Notes

Jeremiah 4:28

At funerals in Hebrew society, people traditionally mourned and wore black (compare Isaiah 5:30; 50:3). The Lord had judged the people guilty and promised to keep his word (Jeremiah 5:10; 30:11, 24; Isaiah 5:30; 46:10–11).

Theme notes and profiles

God’s Change of Mind

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
Isaiah 50:3
I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
Joel 2:30–31
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
Isaiah 5:30
In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.
Jeremiah 14:2
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 14:11–12
Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
Joel 1:10
The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
Jeremiah 15:1–9
Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
Hebrews 7:21
…but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”
Isaiah 33:8–9
The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

Glossary

Black Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah (Person)

Topics

Condescension of God: Expostulates with Backsliding Israel Darkness of Judgments Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments The Counsels and Purposes of God are Immutable The Earth: Made to Mourn and Languish by Sin War: Evils of

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