Jeremiah 1:14
Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 1:14 in other translations
| BSB | Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land. |
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| WEB | Then the LORD said to me, “Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land. |
| ASV | Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. |
| YLT | And Jehovah saith unto me, ‘From the north is the evil loosed against all inhabitants of the land. |
| DARBY | And Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north shall evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. |
| BBE | Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land. |
| Webster | Then the LORD said to me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. |
What does Jeremiah 1:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 1:11-19
God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond-tree, which is more forward in the spring than any other, represented the speedy approach of judgments. God also showed whence the intended ruin should arise. Jeremiah saw a seething-pot boiling, representing Jerusalem and Judah in great commotion. The mouth or face of the furnace or hearth, was toward the north; from…
Jeremiah 1:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 1:14
- Jeremiah 6:1
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth–haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
- Jeremiah 10:22
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
- Jeremiah 4:6
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
- Isaiah 41:25
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
- Jeremiah 6:22
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
- Jeremiah 46:20
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
- Jeremiah 50:41
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 50:9
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
- Ezekiel 1:4
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
- Jeremiah 31:8
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
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Context
- Jeremiah 1:13
And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.
- Jeremiah 1:14
Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
- Jeremiah 1:15
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 1:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y díjome Jehová: Del aquilón se soltará el mal sobre todos los moradores de la tierra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et l’ Éternel me dit: Du nord le mal fondra sur tous les habitants du pays. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Jehova sprach zu mir: Von Norden her wird das Unglück losbrechen über alle Bewohner des Landes. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et dixit Dominus ad me: Ab aquilone pandetur malum super omnes habitatores terræ: |