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Jeremiah 4:30 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 4 · verse 30
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.Jeremiah 4:30 · King James Version
Jeremiah 4:30 in context
28For 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.
29The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ornamentsʻădîyfineryH5716 →
- clothestlâbashproperly, wrap aroundH3847 →
- paintingpûwkdyeH6320 →
- spoiledshâdadproperly, to be burlyH7703 →
- crimsonshânîycrimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with itH8144 →
- deckestʻâdâhto advanceH5710 →
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The prophet is here in an agony, and cries out like one upon the rack of pain with some acute distemper, or as a woman in travail. The expressions are very pathetic and moving, enough to melt a heart of stone into compassion: My bowels! my bowels! I am pained at my very heart;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-31