Jeremia 6:25

Lutherbibel

Es gehe ja niemand hinaus auf den Acker, niemand gehe über Feld; denn es ist allenthalben unsicher vor dem Schwert des Feindes.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Gehe ja nicht aufs Feld hinaus und betritt die Straße nicht! Denn des Feindes Schwert verbreitet Schrecken ringsum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Go not: Jeremiah 4:5, Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 14:18, Judges 5:6, Judges 5:7

the sword: Jeremiah 4:10, Jeremiah 20:3, Jeremiah 20:4, *marg. Jeremiah 20:10, Jeremiah 49:29, 2 Chronicles 15:5, Job 18:11, Psalms 31:13, Isaiah 1:20, Luke 19:43

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 46:5 - fear Lamentations 2:22 - my terrors 2 Corinthians 7:5 - troubled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go not forth into the field,.... Either for pleasure, or for business; to take a walk in it for the air, or to till it, plough, sow, or reap; but keep within the city and its walls, there being danger:

nor walk by the way; in the high road from Jerusalem, to any town or village near it:

for the sword of the enemy: or, "because there is a sword for the enemy" b; or, "the enemy has a sword"; and that drawn; the enemy is in the field, and in the ways, and there is no escaping him:

and fear is on every side; all round the city, being encompassed by the Assyrian army: or, the enemy's sword "is fear on every side" c; causes fear in all parts round the city. The Targum is,

"because the sword of the enemy kills those who are gathered round about;''

or on every side.

b כי חרב לאיוב "quoniam gladius est inimico", Munster, Vatablus, Junius Tremellius "quia (ibi) gladius (qui) hosti", Schmidt. c Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the sword of the enemy - literally, “for to the enemy a sword; i. e., for the enemy is armed,” he has a commission from God to execute judgment. See Jeremiah 12:12; Isaiah 10:5, and Psalms 17:13 note.

Fear is on every side - Magor-Missabib, Jeremiah’s watchword (compare Jeremiah 20:3, Jeremiah 20:10). The “and” before it should be omitted.