10 Then I said, “Oh, Lord [a]God! Surely You have utterly (A)deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘(B)You will have peace’; yet a sword touches the [b]throat.”

11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A (C)scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness, in the direction of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse, 12 a wind too [c]strong for [d]this—will come [e]at My command; now I will also pronounce judgments against them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:10 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  2. Jeremiah 4:10 Or life
  3. Jeremiah 4:12 Lit full from
  4. Jeremiah 4:12 Lit these
  5. Jeremiah 4:12 Lit for Me

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