Jeremiah 4:12

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
a wind too strong for this comes at my call. Now I will also pronounce judgments against them.’”

Hebrew Names Version
a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.

King James Version
Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

English Standard Version
a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."

New American Standard Bible
a wind too strong for this—will come at My command; now I will also pronounce judgments against them."

New Century Version
I feel a stronger wind than that. Now even I will announce judgments against the people of Judah."

Amplified Bible
a wind too strong and full for this comes at My word. Now I will also speak judgment against My people."

World English Bible
a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
A mightie winde shall come vnto me from those places, and nowe will I also giue sentence vpon them.

Legacy Standard Bible
a wind too full for these things—will come for My purpose; now I will also speak judgments against them.

Berean Standard Bible
a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I will also pronounce judgments against them."

Complete Jewish Bible
this wind of mine is too strong for that. Now I will pass sentence on them."

Darby Translation
A wind more vehement than that shall come from me: now will I also pronounce judgments against them.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is a stronger wind than that, and it comes from me. Now I will announce my judgment against the people of Judah."

George Lamsa Translation
But a strong wind from those places shall come to me; now also I will pronounce judgment against them.

Good News Translation
the wind that comes at the Lord 's command will be much stronger than that! It is the Lord himself who is pronouncing judgment on his people.

Lexham English Bible
a wind too strong for these will come for me, now also I speak judgments against them."

Literal Translation
A wind more full than these shall come for Me. Now I also will speak judgments against them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After that shall there come vnto me a stronge wynde, and then wil I also geue sentence vpon them.

American Standard Version
a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.

Bible in Basic English
A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A wind too strong for this shall come for Me; now will I also utter judgments against them.

King James Version (1611)
Euen a full winde from those places shall come vnto mee: now also will I giue sentence against them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After that, shall there come vnto me a strong wynde from those places, & then wyll I also geue sentence vpon them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But a spirit of full vengeance shall come upon me; and now I declare my judgments against them.

English Revised Version
a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A spirit ful of hem schal come to me; and now Y, but Y schal speke my domes with hem.

Update Bible Version
a full wind from these shall come for me: now I will also utter judgments against them.

Webster's Bible Translation
[Even] a full wind from those [places] shall come to me: now also will I give sentence against them.

New English Translation
No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.'

New King James Version
A wind too strong for these will come for Me; Now I will also speak judgment against them."

New Living Translation
It is a roaring blast sent by me! Now I will pronounce your destruction!"

New Life Bible
A wind too strong for this will come at My word. Now I will bring punishment against them."

New Revised Standard
a wind too strong for that. Now it is I who speak in judgment against them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A wind too strong for these, cometh in for me. Now, will, I also, pronounce sentences upon them:

Douay-Rheims Bible
A full wind from these places shall come to me: and now I will speak my judgments with them.

Revised Standard Version
a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."

Young's Literal Translation
A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
a wind too strong for this—will come at My command; now I will also pronounce judgments against them.

Contextual Overview

⁵"Sound the alarm in Judah, broadcast the news in Jerusalem. Say, ‘Blow the ram's horn trumpet through the land!' Shout out—a bullhorn bellow!— ‘Close ranks! Run for your lives to the shelters!' Send up a flare warning Zion: ‘Not a minute to lose! Don't sit on your hands!' Disaster's descending from the north. I set it off! When it lands, it will shake the foundations. Invaders have pounced like a lion from its cover, ready to rip nations to shreds, Leaving your land in wrack and ruin, your cities in rubble, abandoned. Dress in funereal black. Weep and wail, For God 's sledgehammer anger has slammed into us head-on. ⁹ "When this happens" — God 's Decree— "King and princes will lose heart; priests will be baffled and prophets stand dumbfounded." ¹⁰ Then I said, "Alas, Master God ! You've fed lies to this people, this Jerusalem. You assured them, ‘All is well, don't worry,' at the very moment when the sword was at their throats." ¹¹At that time, this people, yes, this very Jerusalem, will be told in plain words: "The northern hordes are sweeping in from the desert steppes— A wind that's up to no good, a gale-force wind. I ordered this wind. I'm pronouncing my hurricane judgment on my people." ¹³Look at them! Like banks of storm clouds, racing, tumbling, their chariots a tornado, Their horses faster than eagles! Woe to us! We're done for! Jerusalem! Scrub the evil from your lives so you'll be fit for salvation. How much longer will you harbor devious and malignant designs within you? ¹⁵What's this? A messenger from Dan? Bad news from Ephraim's hills! Make the report public. Broadcast the news to Jerusalem: "Invaders from far off are raising war cries against Judah's towns. They're all over her, like a dog on a bone. And why? Because she rebelled against me." God 's Decree. ¹⁸ "It's the way you've lived that's brought all this on you. The bitter taste is from your evil life. That's what's piercing your heart."

Bible Verse Review
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a full wind from those: or, a fuller wind than those

give sentence: Heb. utter judgments, Jeremiah 1:16, Ezekiel 5:8, Ezekiel 6:11-13, Ezekiel 7:8, Ezekiel 7:9

Reciprocal: Job 1:19 - a great Job 30:22 - liftest me Isaiah 64:6 - our iniquities Jeremiah 13:24 - as Jeremiah 15:7 - I will fan Jeremiah 39:5 - gave judgment upon him Jeremiah 51:1 - a destroying wind Ezekiel 19:12 - the east Ezekiel 22:20 - in mine Hosea 4:19 - wind Zechariah 7:14 - scattered

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
Time passed. Cain brought an offering to God from the produce of his farm. Abel also brought an offering, but from the firstborn animals of his herd, choice cuts of meat. God liked Abel and his offering, but Cain and his offering didn't get his approval. Cain lost his temper and went into a sulk.

Genesis 4:17
Cain slept with his wife. She conceived and had Enoch. He then built a city and named it after his son, Enoch. Enoch had Irad, Irad had Mehujael, Mehujael had Methushael, Methushael had Lamech.

Genesis 4:23
Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, listen to me; you wives of Lamech, hear me out: I killed a man for wounding me, a young man who attacked me. If Cain is avenged seven times, for Lamech it's seventy-seven!

Leviticus 26:36
"As for those among you still alive, I'll give them over to fearful timidity—even the rustle of a leaf will throw them into a panic. They'll run here and there, back and forth, as if running for their lives even though no one is after them, tripping and falling over one another in total confusion. You won't stand a chance against an enemy. You'll perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will eat you up. Any who are left will slowly rot away in the enemy lands. Rot. And all because of their sins, their sins compounded by their ancestors' sins.

Hosea 9:17
My God has washed his hands of them. They wouldn't listen. They're doomed to be wanderers, vagabonds among the godless nations.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me,.... That is, a strong one, very vehement; or, "a wind which is fuller than these", as the Syriac version renders it; which is stronger than those winds which are fit for fanning and winnowing the chaff from the wheat. Jarchi interprets it, a wind full of those punishments which God had threatened, and determined to bring upon this people, and would not turn from, nor repent of: and the phrase "shall come unto me" regards not the prophet, nor the people of the Jews, whom he represented, but the Lord himself; and shows that the wind is at his command, and when he calls, it comes unto him, and obeys his will, Psalms 148:8 and that all afflictions, judgments, and punishments for sin, are from him:

now also will l give sentence against them; not the prophet, but the Lord, who would now call them to his bar, try their cause, reprove them for their sins, pronounce sentence against them, and execute it. The Targum is,

"because they have wandered after the false prophets, who prophesied to them in a spirit of falsehood; therefore the armies of the people, higher than those, as the wind shall come against them; even now by my word I will bring them, and pronounce the vengeance of my judgments on them.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, as in the margin; i. e., a wind more full, more impetuous than those winds which serve for fanning and cleansing the grain.

Unto me - Rather, for me: to perform my will.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 4:12. Jeremiah 4:11.