Jeremiah 4 · Verse 24

Jeremiah 4:24

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jeremiah 4:24, King James Version

Jeremiah 4:24 in other translations

BSBI looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
WEBI saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.
ASVI beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.
YLTI have looked to the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.
DARBYI beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently.
BBELooking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.
WebsterI beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

What does Jeremiah 4:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
24. mountains--(Is 5:25). moved lightly--shook vehemently.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 24 The mountains - hills - Princes, rulers, etc., were astonished and fled.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · 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 4:24 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.

רָאִ֙יתִי֙ra.'I.tiI looked atH7200
הֶֽהָרִ֔יםhe.ha.Rimthe mountainsH2022
וְהִנֵּ֖הve.hi.Nehand there!H2009
רֹעֲשִׁ֑יםro.'a.Shim[they were] quakingH7493
וְכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605
הַגְּבָע֖וֹתha.ge.va.'otthe hillsH1389
הִתְקַלְקָֽלוּ\׃hit.kal.Ka.luthey shook to and froH7043

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

Cross references for Jeremiah 4:24

  • Ezekiel 38:20

    So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

  • Isaiah 5:25

    Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Jeremiah 10:10

    But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

  • Nahum 1:5-6

    The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

  • Judges 5:4-5

    Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.

  • Psalms 18:7

    Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

  • Psalms 114:4-7

    The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

  • Micah 1:4

    And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

  • Psalms 97:4

    His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

  • 1 Kings 19:11

    And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

  • Habakkuk 3:10

    The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

  • Habakkuk 3:6

    He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
mountains.
8:16; 10:10; Jud 5:4,5; 1Ki 19:11; Ps 18:7; 77:18; 97:4; 114:4-7
Isa 5:25; Eze 38:20; Mic 1:4; Na 1:5,6; Hab 3:6,10

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

Context

  • Jeremiah 4:23

    I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

  • Jeremiah 4:24

    I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

  • Jeremiah 4:25

    I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

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Jeremiah 4:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Miré los montes, y he aquí que temblaban, y todos los collados fueron destruídos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
J’ai regardé les montagnes, et voici, elles se remuaient, et toutes les collines branlaient.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich schaue die Berge an, und siehe, sie beben; und alle Hügel schwanken.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Vidi montes, et ecce movebantur: et omnes colles conturbati sunt.