Jeremiah 4:30
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
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.
Note face: Heb. eyes
You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
And thou, when thou art made desolate, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlargest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair; thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- And when
- Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 13:21; Isaiah 10:3; Isaiah 20:6; Isaiah 33:14; Hebrews 2:3
- Though
- Ezekiel 23:40, 41; Ezekiel 28:9, 13; Revelation 17:4
- face
- Heb. eyes.
- 2 Kings 9:30
- in vain
- Jeremiah 22:20–22; Lamentations 1:2, 19; Lamentations 4:17; Ezekiel 16:36–41; Ezekiel 23:9, 10, 22–24, 28, 29; Revelation 17:2, 13, 16–18