Jeremiah 1 · Verse 14

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, King James Version

Jeremiah 1:14 in other translations

BSBThen the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
WEBThen the LORD said to me, “Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.
ASVThen Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
YLTAnd Jehovah saith unto me, ‘From the north is the evil loosed against all inhabitants of the land.
DARBYAnd Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north shall evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
BBEThen the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.
WebsterThen 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
14. break forth--"shall disclose itself." Out of the north--(Jr 4:6; 6:1, 22; 10:22; 25:9; Eze 26:7). The Chaldeans did not cast off the yoke of Assyria till several years after, under Nabopolassar, 625 B.C.; but long previously they had so increased as to threaten Assyria, which was now grown weak, and other neighboring peoples.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 Shall break forth - תפתח tippathach, shall be opened. The door shall be thrown abroad, that these calamities may pass out freely.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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…

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Jeremiah 1:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֵלָ֑י'e.Laito meH413
מִצָּפוֹן֙mi.tza.fOnfrom [the] northH6828
תִּפָּתַ֣חti.pa.Tachit will be let looseH6605
הָרָעָ֔הha.ra.'Ah<the> calamityH7451
עַ֥ל'alonH5921
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
יֹשְׁבֵ֖יyo.she.Vei[the] inhabitants ofH3427
הָאָֽרֶץ\׃ha.'A.retzthe landH776

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Out of.
4:6; 6:1,22; 10:22; 31:8; 46:20; 50:9,41; Isa 41:25; Eze 1:4
break forth. Heb. be opened.

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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.

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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.
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: