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22 The Lord said, “My people are foolish.
    They don’t know me.
They are stupid children.
    They don’t understand.
They are skillful at doing evil,
    but they don’t know how to do good.”

Disaster Is Coming

23 I looked at the earth.
    It was empty; there was nothing on it.
I looked at the sky,
    and its light was gone.[a]
24 I looked at the mountains,
    and they were shaking.
    All the hills were trembling.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:23 the earth … gone Jeremiah is comparing his country to the time before people were put on the earth. See Gen. 1:1.

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