Jeremiah 6:25
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
Jeremiah 6:25 in other translations
| BSB | Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side. |
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| WEB | Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side. |
| ASV | Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, and terror, are on every side. |
| YLT | Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear is round about. |
| DARBY | Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, terror is on every side. |
| BBE | Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side. |
| Webster | Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. |
What does Jeremiah 6:25 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 6:18-30
God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they provoke God. The sins of God's professing people make them an easy prey to their enemies. They dare not show themselves. Saints may rejoice in hope of God's mercies, though they see them only in the promise: sinners must mourn…
Jeremiah 6:25 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 6:25
- Jeremiah 49:29
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
- Jeremiah 14:18
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
- Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
- Jeremiah 20:10
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
- Job 18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
- Jeremiah 8:14
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
- 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 20:3-4
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor–missabib. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
- Judges 5:6-7
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
- Jeremiah 4:10
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
- Isaiah 1:20
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
- Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
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Context
- Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
- Jeremiah 6:25
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
- Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah 6:25 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No salgas al campo, ni andes por camino; porque espada de enemigo y temor hay por todas partes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ne sortez pas dans les champs, et n’allez point par le chemin; car l’épée de l’ennemi, la terreur est partout. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gehe nicht hinaus aufs Feld und wandle nicht auf dem Wege; denn der Feind hat ein Schwert, -Schrecken ringsum! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Nolite exire ad agros, et in via ne ambuletis, quoniam gladius inimici, pavor in circuitu. |