Jeremiah 4:28

Earth and heaven mourn because God has spoken His judgment and will not turn back. It matters because it underscores the certainty and irreversibility of God's decreed word.

Cross-references · 31

• Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
• Jer 12:4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, “He shall not see our latter end.”
• Isa 50:3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
• Hos 4:3Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
• Joel 2:30–31I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
• Isa 5:30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
• Jer 12:11They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
• Joel 1:10The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
• Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
• Ezek 24:14I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Heb 7:21(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’”
• Mark 15:33When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
• Isa 24:4The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
• Jer 23:10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;
• 1 Sam 15:29Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
• Jer 30:24The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”
• Eph 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
• Jer 7:16“Therefore don’t pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
• Jer 14:11–12Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good.
• Isa 14:24–27Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
• Rev 6:12I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
• Jer 14:2“Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
• Luke 23:44It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
• Matt 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
• Isa 34:4All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
• Jer 23:20Yahweh’s anger shall not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
• Isa 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
• Jer 4:23–26I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Isa 33:8–9The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
• Jer 15:1–9Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
• Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

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