Jeremiah 4:9
Good News Translation
The LORD said, "On that day kings and officials will lose their courage; priests will be shocked and prophets will be astonished."

New Revised Standard Version
On that day, says the LORD, courage shall fail the king and the officials; the priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said, "When all this happens, the king and his officials, the prophets and the priests will be shocked and terrified."

New American Bible
In that day—oracle of the LORD— The king will lose heart, and the princes; the priests will be horrified, and the prophets stunned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord: That the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes: and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord: That the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes: and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.

that the heart

Jeremiah 39:4,5 And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the way of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert. . . .

Jeremiah 52:7 And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about,) and they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.

1 Samuel 25:37,38 But early in the morning, when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. . . .

2 Kings 25:4 And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.

Psalm 102:4 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

Isaiah 19:3,11,12,16 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers. . . .

Isaiah 21:3,4 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. . . .

Isaiah 22:3-5 All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off. . . .

and the priests

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?

Jeremiah 6:13,14 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit. . . .

Jeremiah 37:19 Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

Isaiah 29:9,10 Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness. . . .

Ezekiel 13:9-16 And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God. . . .

Acts 13:41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

Context
Disaster from the North
8For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us. 9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord: That the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes: and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.10And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, hast thou then deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: You shall have peace: and behold the sword reacheth even to the soul?…
Cross References
Isaiah 22:3
All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.

Isaiah 29:9
Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.

Isaiah 29:10
For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that see visions.

Jeremiah 48:41
Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in labour.

Ezekiel 13:9
And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.

Jeremiah 4:8
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