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Jeremiah 30:5

What does Jeremiah 30:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 30:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Surely thus said Jehovah: A voice of trembling we have heard, Fear--and there is no peace.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror: there is fear and no peace.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

for thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, there is fear, and no peace.

Context

v.4And these are the words that Jehovah spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

v.5This passage

v.6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 6:23

    They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion.

  • Jeremiah 31:15

    Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

  • Isaiah 5:30

    And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

  • Zephaniah 1:10

    And in that day, saith Jehovah, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • Amos 5:16

    Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.

  • Amos 8:10

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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