Jeremiah 4:23-31
Jeremiah's vision
It had no shape and it was empty.
I looked at the sky.
Its light had
They were
All the hills were moving around.
All the birds had flown away.
All the cities had become
The Lord had caused this to happen
because he was very angry.
‘The whole land will become like a desert,
but I will not completely destroy it.
The sky will become dark.
I have said what I will do.
And I will not change my thoughts.
I will do as I have decided.’
the people will run away to
The enemy soldiers will ride on horses,
and they will shoot
When the people hear them,
some of them will hide among trees.
Some of them will climb up among the rocks.
All the towns will become empty.
Nobody will live in them.
You tried to make friends,
like a woman who wears a beautiful dress.
You wore your gold and your
You painted around your eyes.
But all that has not helped you.
The
Now they want to kill you.
It sounds like a woman who is giving birth to her first baby.
She is calling out with great pain.
It is Jerusalem who is crying!
She is calling out for help.
She says, ‘Help me! I am very weak.
These murderers have come to kill me!’