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Jeremiah 4:6

What does Jeremiah 4:6 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 4:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

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.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Context

v.5Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

v.6This passage

v.7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Cross references

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

  • Jeremiah 4:21

    How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

  • Jeremiah 21:7

    And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

  • Jeremiah 51:27

    Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

  • Jeremiah 51:12

    Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

  • Jeremiah 50:22

    A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

  • 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.

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