Jeremiah 4:15

THE MESSAGE

What's this? A messenger from Dan? Bad news from Ephraim's hills! Make the report public. Broadcast the news to Jerusalem: "Invaders from far off are raising war cries against Judah's towns. They're all over her, like a dog on a bone. And why? Because she rebelled against me." God 's Decree.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For a voice announces from Dan,proclaiming malice from Mount Ephraim.

Hebrew Names Version
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Efrayim:

King James Version
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

English Standard Version
For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims trouble from Mount Ephraim.

New American Standard Bible
For a voice declares from Dan, And proclaims wickedness from Mount Ephraim.

New Century Version
A voice from Dan makes an announcement and brings bad news from the mountains of Ephraim.

Amplified Bible
For a voice declares from Dan [far in the north], And proclaims evil from Mount Ephraim.

World English Bible
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:

Geneva Bible (1587)
For a voyce declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

Legacy Standard Bible
For a voice declares from Dan,And makes wickedness heard from Mount Ephraim.

Berean Standard Bible
For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from Mount Ephraim.

Contemporary English Version
before a message of disaster arrives from the hills of Ephraim and the town of Dan.

Complete Jewish Bible
For a voice is announcing the news from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Efrayim:

Darby Translation
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

Easy-to-Read Version
Listen! The voice of a messenger from the land of Dan is speaking. Someone is bringing bad news from the hill country of Ephraim:

George Lamsa Translation
For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims affliction from mount Ephraim.

Good News Translation
Messengers from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim announce the bad news.

Lexham English Bible
For a voice is declaring from Dan, and is proclaiming disaster from the mountain of Ephraim.

Literal Translation
For a voice announces from Dan, and proclaims evil from Mount Ephraim.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For a voyce from Dan and from ye hill of Ephraim speaketh out, and telleth of a destruction.

American Standard Version
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills of Ephraim.

Bible in Basic English
For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out evil from the hills of Ephraim:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For hark! one declareth from Dan, and announceth calamity from the hills of Ephraim:

King James Version (1611)
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For a voyce from Dan and from the hill of Ephraim speaketh out, and telleth of a destruction.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of mount Ephraim shall be heard of.

English Revised Version
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills of Ephraim:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi the vois of a tellere fro Dan, and makynge knowun an idol fro the hil of Effraym.

Update Bible Version
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:

Webster's Bible Translation
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

New English Translation
For messengers are coming, heralding disaster, from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim.

New King James Version
For a voice declares from Dan And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim:

New Living Translation
Your destruction has been announced from Dan and the hill country of Ephraim.

New Life Bible
For a voice calls out from Dan, and tells of sin from Mount Ephraim.

New Revised Standard
For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims disaster from Mount Ephraim.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For a voice, declareth from Dan, - And publisheth trouble from the hill country of Ephraim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving notice of the idol from mount Ephraim.

Revised Standard Version
For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims evil from Mount E'phraim.

Young's Literal Translation
For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For a voice declares from Dan, And proclaims wickedness from Mount Ephraim.

Contextual Overview

⁵"Sound the alarm in Judah, broadcast the news in Jerusalem. Say, ‘Blow the ram's horn trumpet through the land!' Shout out—a bullhorn bellow!— ‘Close ranks! Run for your lives to the shelters!' Send up a flare warning Zion: ‘Not a minute to lose! Don't sit on your hands!' Disaster's descending from the north. I set it off! When it lands, it will shake the foundations. Invaders have pounced like a lion from its cover, ready to rip nations to shreds, Leaving your land in wrack and ruin, your cities in rubble, abandoned. Dress in funereal black. Weep and wail, For God 's sledgehammer anger has slammed into us head-on. ⁹ "When this happens" — God 's Decree— "King and princes will lose heart; priests will be baffled and prophets stand dumbfounded." ¹⁰ Then I said, "Alas, Master God ! You've fed lies to this people, this Jerusalem. You assured them, ‘All is well, don't worry,' at the very moment when the sword was at their throats." ¹¹At that time, this people, yes, this very Jerusalem, will be told in plain words: "The northern hordes are sweeping in from the desert steppes— A wind that's up to no good, a gale-force wind. I ordered this wind. I'm pronouncing my hurricane judgment on my people." ¹³Look at them! Like banks of storm clouds, racing, tumbling, their chariots a tornado, Their horses faster than eagles! Woe to us! We're done for! Jerusalem! Scrub the evil from your lives so you'll be fit for salvation. How much longer will you harbor devious and malignant designs within you? ¹⁵What's this? A messenger from Dan? Bad news from Ephraim's hills! Make the report public. Broadcast the news to Jerusalem: "Invaders from far off are raising war cries against Judah's towns. They're all over her, like a dog on a bone. And why? Because she rebelled against me." God 's Decree. 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."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a voice: Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 8:16, Judges 18:29, Judges 20:1

mount Ephraim: Joshua 17:15, Joshua 20:7

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 20:21 - a man Jeremiah 30:5 - a voice

Cross-References

Leviticus 26:18
"And if none of this works in getting your attention, I'll discipline you seven times over for your sins. I'll break your strong pride: I'll make the skies above you like a sheet of tin and the ground under you like cast iron. No matter how hard you work, nothing will come of it: No crops out of the ground, no fruit off the trees.

Leviticus 26:21
"If you defy me and refuse to listen, your punishment will be seven times more than your sins: I'll set wild animals on you; they'll rob you of your children, kill your cattle, and decimate your numbers until you'll think you are living in a ghost town.

1 Kings 16:7
That's the way it was with Baasha: Through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani, God 's word came to him and his regime because of his life of open evil before God and his making God so angry—a chip off the block of Jeroboam, even though God had destroyed him.

Psalms 59:11
Don't make quick work of them, God , lest my people forget. Bring them down in slow motion, take them apart piece by piece. Let all their mean-mouthed arrogance catch up with them, Catch them out and bring them down —every muttered curse —every barefaced lie. Finish them off in fine style! Finish them off for good! Then all the world will see that God rules well in Jacob, everywhere that God's in charge.

Hosea 1:4
Then God told him: "Name him Jezreel. It won't be long now before I'll make the people of Israel pay for the massacre at Jezreel. I'm calling it quits on the kingdom of Israel. Payday is coming! I'm going to chop Israel's bows and arrows into kindling in the valley of Jezreel."

Matthew 26:52
Jesus said, "Put your sword back where it belongs. All who use swords are destroyed by swords. Don't you realize that I am able right now to call to my Father, and twelve companies—more, if I want them—of fighting angels would be here, battle-ready? But if I did that, how would the Scriptures come true that say this is the way it has to be?"

Revelation 14:9
A third Angel followed, shouting, warning, "If anyone worships the Beast and its image and takes the mark on forehead or hand, that person will drink the wine of God's wrath, prepared unmixed in his chalice of anger, and suffer torment from fire and brimstone in the presence of Holy Angels, in the presence of the Lamb. Smoke from their torment will rise age after age. No respite for those who worship the Beast and its image, who take the mark of its name."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For a voice declareth from Dan,.... The coming of the enemy, as Kimchi explains it, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans; a messenger was come from Dan, which was on the border of the land of Israel to the north, on which side Babylon lay, and from whence the evil was to come predicted; who declared the enemy was approaching, just entering the land; not that this was now the case in fact, but this is represented in a prophetic manner, as what would be, in order to arouse and awaken the Jews to a sense of their sin and danger; see Jeremiah 8:10

and publisheth affliction from Mount Ephraim: which lay on the border of the tribe of Benjamin, and nearer to Jerusalem; and this publication represents the enemy as advancing nearer, and being just at hand. The word for "affliction" signifies "iniquity" a; and it denotes, that the affliction spoken of, which is the destruction of the Jews, and their captivity in Babylon, were occasioned by their sins. Some think that Dan and Ephraim are mentioned, because of the calves that were worshipped in Dan, and in Bethel, which was in the tribe of Ephraim. The Targum favours this, which paraphrases the words thus,

"for the voice of the prophets that prophesied against them that go into captivity, because they worshipped the calf, which is at Dan; and they that bring evil tidings, shall come upon them, because they served the image which Micah set up in the mount of the house of Ephraim;''

and the Vulgate Latin version is,

"the voice of him that declares from Dan, and that makes known the idol from Mount Ephraim.''

a און "iniquitatem", Vatablus, Pagninus, Montanus, Schimdt; "vanitatem", Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dan - The border-town of Palestine on the north Deuteronomy 34:1.

Mount Ephraim - The northern boundary of Judaea itself. The invading army presses on so rapidly, that scarcely have the news arrived of its appearance at Dan, before fresh messengers announce that it has traversed the whole length of Galilee, and is now defiling through the mountains of Samaria.

Affliction - The same word, aven, occurs in Jeremiah 4:14, and apparently there is a play upon its double meaning: for from a root signifying worthlessness, it is used both for wickedness and for misery. Thus, the “iniquity” of Judah proves also, to be her “affliction,” as being the cause of the ruin inflicted by the enemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 4:15. For a voice declareth from Dan — Dan was a city in the tribe of Dan, north of Jerusalem; the first city in Palestine, which occurs in the way from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Affliction from Mount Ephraim. — Between Dan and Jerusalem are the mountains of Ephraim. These would be the first places attacked by the Chaldeans; and the rumour from thence would show that the land was invaded.