BECAUSE I HAVE SPOKEN IT I HAVE PURPOSED IT AND WILL NOT REPENT

 ^{JEREMIAH 4:21-28}

 

^{HOW LONG SHALL I SEE} 

^{THE STANDARD,} 

^AND 

^HEAR 

^{THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET?} 

^{FOR MY PEOPLE IS FOOLISH,} 

^{THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN ME;} 

^{THEY ARE SOTTISH CHILDREN,} 

^AND 

^{THEY HAVE NONE UNDERSTANDING:} 

^{THEY ARE WISE TO DO EVIL,} 

^{BUT TO DO GOOD THEY} 

^{HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE.} 

^{i BEHELD THE EARTH,} 

^{AND LO,} 

^{IT WAS WITHOUT FORM,} 

^{AND VOID;} 

^AND 

^{THE HEAVENS,} 

^{AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT.} 

^{I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS,} 

^{AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED,} 

^{AND ALL THE HILLS MOVED LIGHTLY.} 

^{I BEHELD, AND, LO,} 

^{THERE WAS NO MAN,} 

^{AND ALL THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN} 

^{WERE FLED.} 

^{I BEHELD, AND, LO,} 

^{THE FRUITFUL PLACE} 

^{WAS A WILDERNESS,} 

^{AND ALL THE CITIES} 

^{THEREOF WERE BROKEN} 

^{DOWN AT} 

^{THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD,} 

^AND 

^{BY HIS FIERCE ANGER.} 

^{FOR THUS HATH} 

^{THE LORD SAID,} 

^{THE WHOLE LAND} 

^{SHALL BE DESOLATE;} 

^{YET WILL I NOT MAKE} 

^{A FULL END.} 

^{FOR THIS SHALL THE EARTH MOURN,} 

^AND 

^{THE HEAVENS} 

^{ABOVE BE BLACK;} 

^{BECAUSE I HAVE SPOKEN IT,} 

^{I HAVE PURPOSED IT,} 

^AND 

^{WILL NOT REPENT,} 

^{NEITHER WILL I TURN BACK FROM IT.}

 

^LOVE