Jeremiah 4 · Verse 6

Jeremiah 4:6

Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Jeremiah 4:6, King James Version

Jeremiah 4:6 in other translations

BSBRaise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.
WEBSet up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
ASVSet up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
YLTLift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.
DARBYSet up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
BBEPut 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.
WebsterSet up the standard towards Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

What does Jeremiah 4:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. Zion--The standard toward Zion intimated that the people of the surrounding country were to fly to it, as being the strongest of their fortresses.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 I will bring evil from the north - From the land of Chaldea.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 4:5-18

The fierce conqueror of the neighbouring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by false prophets. The approach of the enemy is described. Some attention was paid in Jerusalem to outward reformation; but it was necessary that their hearts should be washed, in the exercise of true repentance and faith, from the love and pollution of sin. When lesser…

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Jeremiah 4:6 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.

שְׂאוּ\־se.'u-lift upH5375
נֵ֣סnesa standardH5251
צִיּ֔וֹנָהtzi.Yo.nahZion towardsH6726
הָעִ֖יזוּha.'I.zutake refugeH5756
אַֽל\־'al-may notH408
תַּעֲמֹ֑דוּta.'a.Mo.duyou stand stillH5975
כִּ֣יkiforH3588
רָעָ֗הra.'AhcalamityH7451
אָנֹכִ֛י'a.no.KhiIH595
מֵבִ֥יאme.Vi'[am] about to bringH935
מִצָּפ֖וֹןmi.tza.Fonfrom [the] northH6828
וְשֶׁ֥בֶרve.She.verand destructionH7667
גָּדֽוֹל\׃ga.DolgreatH1419

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Cross references for Jeremiah 4:6

  • Jeremiah 50:2

    Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

  • Jeremiah 1:13-15

    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. Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. 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 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 Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

  • 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 4:21

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

  • Jeremiah 51:12

    Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 62:10

    Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

  • Jeremiah 25:9

    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

  • Jeremiah 21:7

    And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and 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 50:22

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

  • Jeremiah 51:54

    A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the standard.
21; 50:2; 51:12,27; Isa 62:10
retire. or, strengthen. for I will.
1:13-15; 6:1,22; 21:7; 25:9
and a great.
50:22; 51:54
destruction. Heb. breaking.
Zep 1:10

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Context

  • Jeremiah 4:5

    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.

  • Jeremiah 4:6

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

  • Jeremiah 4:7

    The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

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Jeremiah 4:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Alzad bandera en Sión, juntaos, no os detengáis; porque yo hago venir mal del aquilón, y quebrantamiento grande.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Élevez l’étendard vers Sion, fuyez, et ne vous arrêtez pas; car je fais venir du nord le mal et une grande ruine.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Erhebet ein Panier gegen Zion hin; flüchtet, bleibet nicht stehen! denn ich bringe Unglück von Norden her und große Zerschmetterung.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Levate signum in Sion; confortamini, nolite stare: quia malum ego adduco ab aquilone, et contritionem magnam.