Jeremiah 4:18

¹⁸"It''s the way you''ve lived that''s brought all this on you. The bitter taste is from your evil life. That''s what''s piercing your heart." [JC]

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