Jeremiah 4 · Verse 21

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jeremiah 4:21, King James Version

Jeremiah 4:21 in other translations

BSBHow long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?
WEBHow long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
ASVHow long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
YLTTill when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?
DARBYHow long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
BBEHow long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?
WebsterHow long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

What does Jeremiah 4:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
21. Judah in perplexity asks, How long is this state of things to continue?

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 4:19-31

The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jewish nation would not be final. Every end of our comforts is not a full end. Though the Lord may correct his people very severely, yet he will not cast them off. Ornaments and false colouring would be of no avail. No outward…

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Jeremiah 4:21 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.

עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
מָתַ֖יma.Taiwhen?H4970
אֶרְאֶה\־'er.'eh-will I seeH7200
נֵּ֑סNesa standardH5251
אֶשְׁמְעָ֖ה'esh.me.'Ahwill I hearH8085
ק֥וֹלKol[the] sound ofH6963
שׁוֹפָֽר\׃\ \סsho.Fara trumpetH7782

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

Cross references for Jeremiah 4:21

  • 2 Chronicles 36:6-7

    Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:25

    And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:10

    And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Jeremiah 4:5-6

    Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:3

    And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

  • 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.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:17

    Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

  • Jeremiah 4:19

    My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
How long.
14
shall I.
5,6,19; 6:1; 2Ch 35:25; 36:3,6,7,10,17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Jeremiah 4:20

    Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

  • Jeremiah 4:21

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

  • Jeremiah 4:22

    For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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Jeremiah 4:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Hasta cuándo tengo de ver bandera, tengo de oir voz de trompeta?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Jusques à quand verrai-je l’étendard, entendrai-je la voix de la trompette?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wie lange soll ich das Panier sehen, den Schall der Posaune hören? -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Usquequo videbo fugientem; audiam vocem buccinæ?