Jeremiah 4:2
Verse 2 of 31. The 4th of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.
1If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
2And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
6Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
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Jeremiah 4:2 in the World English Bible
and you will swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”Read Jeremiah 4:2 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 4:2
They must give unto God the glory due unto his name (v. 2): "Thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth. His existence shall be with thee the most sacred fact, than which nothing can be more sure, and his judgment the supreme court to which thou shalt appeal, than which nothing can be more awful."
Read Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 4:1–2: Exhortation to Repentance. (b. c. 620.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.