Jeremiah 4:15

The NET Bible®

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

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 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.

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.

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

Contextual Overview

⁵ The Lord said, "Announce this in Judah and proclaim it in Jerusalem: ‘Sound the trumpet throughout the land!' Shout out loudly, ‘Gather together! Let us flee into the fortified cities!' ⁶ 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. ⁷ Like a lion that has come up from its lair the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited. ⁸ So put on sackcloth! Mourn and wail, saying, ‘The fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us!'" ⁹ "When this happens," says the Lord , "the king and his officials will lose their courage. The priests will be struck with horror, and the prophets will be speechless in astonishment." ¹⁰ In response to all this I said, "Ah, Lord God , you have surely allowed the people of Judah and Jerusalem to be deceived by those who say, ‘You will be safe!' But in fact a sword is already at our throats." ¹¹ "At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be told, ‘A scorching wind will sweep down from the hilltops in the desert on my dear people. It will not be a gentle breeze for winnowing the grain and blowing away the chaff. ¹² No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.' ¹³ Look! The enemy is approaching like gathering clouds. The roar of his chariots is like that of a whirlwind. His horses move more swiftly than eagles." I cry out, "We are doomed, for we will be destroyed!" ¹⁴ "Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?

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

Genesis 4:24
If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!"

Leviticus 26:18
"‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

Leviticus 26:21
"‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

Leviticus 26:24
I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

Leviticus 26:28
I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

1 Kings 16:7
The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord . His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam's dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam's.

Psalms 59:11
Do not strike them dead suddenly, because then my people might forget the lesson. Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down, O Lord who shields us!

Psalms 79:12
Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

Proverbs 6:31
Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.

Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, "Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it."

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.