I HAVE SPOKEN IT I HAVE PURPOSED IT AND WILL NOT REPENT NEITHER WILL I TURN BACK FROM IT

JEREMIAH 4:20-28

 DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION 

IS CRIED; 

FOR THE WHOLE LAND 

IS SPOILED: 

SUDDENLY 

ARE MY TENTS SPOILED, 

AND 

MY CURTAINS IN A MOMENT. 

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 ARE 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 TREMBLE, 

AND 

ALL THE HILLS MOVED LIGHTLY. 

I BEHELD, AND, LO,

THERE WAS NO MAN,

AND ALL THE BIRDS

OF

THE HEAVENS 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