Jeremiah 4:28

²⁸Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.”

Jeremiah 4 is a prophetic call to national repentance, followed by a vision of imminent judgment from the north. The chapter pivots from conditional hope—if Israel returns to the Lord, the nations will be blessed—to the unstoppable advance of a foreign army described as a lion, a sc