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THE MESSAGE
Jeremiah 4:6
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Christian Standard Bible®
Lift up a signal flag toward Zion.Run for cover! Don’t stand still!For I am bringing disaster from the north—a crushing blow.
Lift up a signal flag toward Zion.Run for cover! Don’t stand still!For I am bringing disaster from the north—a crushing blow.
Hebrew Names Version
Set up a standard toward Tziyon: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up a standard toward Tziyon: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
King James Version
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
English Standard Version
Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring disaster from the north, and great destruction.
Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring disaster from the north, and great destruction.
New American Standard Bible
"Raise a flag toward Zion! Take refuge, do not stand still, For I am bringing evil from the north, And great destruction.
"Raise a flag toward Zion! Take refuge, do not stand still, For I am bringing evil from the north, And great destruction.
New Century Version
Raise the signal flag toward Jerusalem! Run for your lives, and don't wait, because I am bringing disaster from the north There will be terrible destruction."
Raise the signal flag toward Jerusalem! Run for your lives, and don't wait, because I am bringing disaster from the north There will be terrible destruction."
Amplified Bible
"Raise a banner toward Zion [to mark the way for those seeking safety inside Jerusalem's walls]! Seek refuge, do not stand [immobile], For I am bringing evil from the north (the army of Babylon), And great destruction.
"Raise a banner toward Zion [to mark the way for those seeking safety inside Jerusalem's walls]! Seek refuge, do not stand [immobile], For I am bringing evil from the north (the army of Babylon), And great destruction.
World English Bible
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Set vp the standart in Zion: prepare to flee, and stay not: for I will bring a plague from the North, and a great destruction.
Set vp the standart in Zion: prepare to flee, and stay not: for I will bring a plague from the North, and a great destruction.
Legacy Standard Bible
Lift up a standard toward Zion!Seek safety, do not stand still,For I am bringing evil from the north,And great destruction.
Lift up a standard toward Zion!Seek safety, do not stand still,For I am bringing evil from the north,And great destruction.
Berean Standard Bible
Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.
Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.
Contemporary English Version
Head for Jerusalem or another walled town!' "Jeremiah, tell them I'm sending disaster from the north.
Head for Jerusalem or another walled town!' "Jeremiah, tell them I'm sending disaster from the north.
Complete Jewish Bible
Set up a signal toward Tziyon, head for cover without delay. For I will bring disaster from the north, yes, dire destruction.
Set up a signal toward Tziyon, head for cover without delay. For I will bring disaster from the north, yes, dire destruction.
Darby Translation
Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Easy-to-Read Version
Raise the signal flag toward Zion. Run for your lives! Don't wait! Do this because I am bringing disaster from the north. I am bringing terrible destruction."
Raise the signal flag toward Zion. Run for your lives! Don't wait! Do this because I am bringing disaster from the north. I am bringing terrible destruction."
George Lamsa Translation
Set up the standard toward Zion; be strong, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up the standard toward Zion; be strong, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Good News Translation
Point the way to Zion! Run for safety! Don't delay! The Lord is bringing disaster and great destruction from the north.
Point the way to Zion! Run for safety! Don't delay! The Lord is bringing disaster and great destruction from the north.
Lexham English Bible
Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Literal Translation
Lift up a banner toward Zion. Flee for safety and do not wait. For I will bring evil from the north and a great ruin.
Lift up a banner toward Zion. Flee for safety and do not wait. For I will bring evil from the north and a great ruin.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Set vp the token in Sion, spede you, and make no tarienge: for I will bringe a greate plage, and a greate destruction from the north.
Set vp the token in Sion, spede you, and make no tarienge: for I will bringe a greate plage, and a greate destruction from the north.
American Standard Version
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Bible in Basic English
Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Set up a standard toward Zion; put yourselves under covert, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up a standard toward Zion; put yourselves under covert, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
King James Version (1611)
Set vp the standards toward Zion: retyre, stay not; for I will bring euil from the North, and a great destruction.
Set vp the standards toward Zion: retyre, stay not; for I will bring euil from the North, and a great destruction.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Set vp the token in Sion, speede you and make no tarying: for I wyll bring a great plague and a great destruction from the north.
Set vp the token in Sion, speede you and make no tarying: for I wyll bring a great plague and a great destruction from the north.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Gather up your wares and flee to Sion: hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, an great destruction.
Gather up your wares and flee to Sion: hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, an great destruction.
English Revised Version
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Reise ye a signe in Sion, coumforte ye, and nyle ye stonde; for Y bringe yuel fro the north, and a greet sorewe.
Reise ye a signe in Sion, coumforte ye, and nyle ye stonde; for Y bringe yuel fro the north, and a greet sorewe.
Update Bible Version
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, don't stay; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Webster's Bible Translation
Set up the standard towards Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Set up the standard towards Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
New English Translation
Raise a signal flag that tells people to go to Zion. Run for safety! Do not delay! For I am about to bring disaster out of the north. It will bring great destruction.
Raise a signal flag that tells people to go to Zion. Run for safety! Do not delay! For I am about to bring disaster out of the north. It will bring great destruction.
New King James Version
Set up the standard toward Zion. Take refuge! Do not delay! For I will bring disaster from the north, And great destruction."
Set up the standard toward Zion. Take refuge! Do not delay! For I will bring disaster from the north, And great destruction."
New Living Translation
Raise a signal flag as a warning for Jerusalem: ‘Flee now! Do not delay!' For I am bringing terrible destruction upon you from the north."
Raise a signal flag as a warning for Jerusalem: ‘Flee now! Do not delay!' For I am bringing terrible destruction upon you from the north."
New Life Bible
Lift up a flag toward Zion! Run to a safe place, do not stand still. For I am bringing much trouble from the north that will destroy much.
Lift up a flag toward Zion! Run to a safe place, do not stand still. For I am bringing much trouble from the north that will destroy much.
New Revised Standard
Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, do not delay, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, do not delay, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lift up an ensign - Zion-ward, Bring into safety, do not tarry, - For, calamity, am, I, bringing in from the North, Even, a great destruction:
Lift up an ensign - Zion-ward, Bring into safety, do not tarry, - For, calamity, am, I, bringing in from the North, Even, a great destruction:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.
Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.
Revised Standard Version
Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.
Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.
Young's Literal Translation
Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.
Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Lift up a standard toward Zion! Seek refuge, do not stand still, For I am bringing evil from the north, And great destruction.
"Lift up a standard toward Zion! Seek refuge, do not stand still, For I am bringing evil from the north, And great destruction.
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
the standard: Jeremiah 4:21, Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 51:12, Jeremiah 51:27, Isaiah 62:10
retire: or, strengthen
for I will: Jeremiah 1:13-15, Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 6:22, Jeremiah 21:7, Jeremiah 25:9
and a great: Jeremiah 50:22, Jeremiah 51:54
destruction: Heb. breaking, Zephaniah 1:10
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 1:14 - Out of Jeremiah 4:20 - upon destruction Jeremiah 6:24 - We have Jeremiah 8:14 - enter Jeremiah 10:22 - the noise Jeremiah 22:7 - I Jeremiah 46:6 - toward Ezekiel 1:4 - a whirlwind Habakkuk 1:6 - I raise Zechariah 6:6 - the north
Cross-References
Genesis 4:1
Adam slept with Eve his wife. She conceived and had Cain. She said, "I've gotten a man, with God 's help!"
Adam slept with Eve his wife. She conceived and had Cain. She said, "I've gotten a man, with God 's help!"
Genesis 4:3
Time passed. Cain brought an offering to God from the produce of his farm. Abel also brought an offering, but from the firstborn animals of his herd, choice cuts of meat. God liked Abel and his offering, but Cain and his offering didn't get his approval. Cain lost his temper and went into a sulk.
Time passed. Cain brought an offering to God from the produce of his farm. Abel also brought an offering, but from the firstborn animals of his herd, choice cuts of meat. God liked Abel and his offering, but Cain and his offering didn't get his approval. Cain lost his temper and went into a sulk.
Genesis 4:8
Cain had words with his brother. They were out in the field; Cain came at Abel his brother and killed him.
Cain had words with his brother. They were out in the field; Cain came at Abel his brother and killed him.
Genesis 4:13
Cain said to God , "My punishment is too much. I can't take it! You've thrown me off the land and I can never again face you. I'm a homeless wanderer on Earth and whoever finds me will kill me."
Cain said to God , "My punishment is too much. I can't take it! You've thrown me off the land and I can never again face you. I'm a homeless wanderer on Earth and whoever finds me will kill me."
Isaiah 1:18
"Come. Sit down. Let's argue this out." This is God 's Message: "If your sins are blood-red, they'll be snow-white. If they're red like crimson, they'll be like wool. If you'll willingly obey, you'll feast like kings. But if you're willful and stubborn, you'll die like dogs." That's right. God says so.
"Come. Sit down. Let's argue this out." This is God 's Message: "If your sins are blood-red, they'll be snow-white. If they're red like crimson, they'll be like wool. If you'll willingly obey, you'll feast like kings. But if you're willful and stubborn, you'll die like dogs." That's right. God says so.
Jeremiah 2:31
"What a generation you turned out to be! Didn't I tell you? Didn't I warn you? Have I let you down, Israel? Am I nothing but a dead-end street? Why do my people say, ‘Good riddance! From now on we're on our own'? Young women don't forget their jewelry, do they? Brides don't show up without their veils, do they? But my people forget me. Day after day after day they never give me a thought.
"What a generation you turned out to be! Didn't I tell you? Didn't I warn you? Have I let you down, Israel? Am I nothing but a dead-end street? Why do my people say, ‘Good riddance! From now on we're on our own'? Young women don't forget their jewelry, do they? Brides don't show up without their veils, do they? But my people forget me. Day after day after day they never give me a thought.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Set up the standard toward Zion,.... Not on the tower of Zion, as Kimchi interprets it; but on some high place, pointing to Zion, and directing the country people to flee thither for safety; for the setting up of the standard here is not for enlisting of soldiers in order to fight, but as a sign of danger, and a direction where to flee from it:
retire; gather yourselves together in order to flee, as the word p is rendered in Isaiah 10:31, though some render it, "be ye strengthened" q; take heart, and play the man; but this does not seem so agreeable to the context:
stay not; or, "stand not"; stand not in the place ye are in, but move from it in all haste, because of present danger:
for I will bring evil from the north; from Babylon, as Kimchi interprets it; which lay north to the land of Israel; and so designs the captivity Judah should be brought into there:
and a great destruction or, "breach" r; which the Babylonians should make on the inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem.
p העיזו "congregate vos, [sub.] ad fugiendum", Vatablus; "confirmate vos [ad fugiendum]", Piscator. q "Confortamini", V. L. "corroboramiui", Castalio; "agite viriliter", Munster. r שבר "contritionem", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "confractionem", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The standard - A flag or signal, to which the people were to rally.Retire, stay not - Rather, gather your goods together: linger not; “for I” (emphatic, Yahweh) am bringing at this very time etc.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 4:6. I will bring evil from the north — From the land of Chaldea.
