When you go to war in your land against the adversary who (A)attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be (B)remembered before the Lord your God, and be saved from your enemies.

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Lament over Judah’s Devastation

19 (A)My [a]soul, my [b]soul! I am in anguish! [c]Oh, my heart!
My (B)heart is pounding in me;
I cannot be silent,
Because [d]you have heard, O my soul,
The (C)sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit inward parts
  2. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit inward parts
  3. Jeremiah 4:19 Lit The walls of my heart
  4. Jeremiah 4:19 Or I, my soul, heard

and he sees the sword coming upon the land and (A)blows on the trumpet and warns the people, then he who hears the sound of the trumpet and (B)does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his (C)blood will be on his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have (D)delivered his life. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is (E)taken away [a]in his iniquity; but his (F)blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 33:6 Or for, and so throughout the ch

The Terrible Visitation

(A)Blow a trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm on My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
For the (B)day of the Lord is coming;
Surely it is near,

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