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Jeremiah 4:6

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

KJV

Levate signum in Sion ; confortamini, nolite stare : quia malum ego adduco ab aquilone, et contritionem magnam.

Vulgate

ἀναλαβόντες φεύγετε εἰς Σειών· σπεύσατε, μή στῆτε, ὅτι κακὰ ἐγὼ ἐπάγω ἀπὸ βορρᾶ καὶ συντριβὴν μεγάλην.

LXX

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

ASV

שְׂאוּ נֵ֣ס צִיּ֔וֹנָ/ה הָעִ֖יזוּ אַֽל תַּעֲמֹ֑דוּ כִּ֣י רָעָ֗ה אָנֹכִ֛י מֵבִ֥יא מִ/צָּפ֖וֹן וְ/שֶׁ֥בֶר גָּדֽוֹל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
אָנֹכִ֖י
'nky
pronoun · 356×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
גָּד֖וֹל
gdvl
verb · 528×
ה
h
noun · 153×
הָעֵז֙
h'z
verb · 4×
יִּשְׂא֥וּ
ysh'v
verb · 652×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
נֵ֣ס
ns
noun · 20×
עֹמְדִ֖ים
'mdym
verb · 526×
צִיּ֔וֹן
tsyvn
proper_noun · 147×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×
שֶׁ֖בֶר
shbr
noun · 44×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Hab 1:6 — For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
  • Isa 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.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 1:14 — Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
  • Jer 4:21 — How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
  • Jer 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 Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and g
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 22:7 — And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
  • Jer 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 there
  • Jer 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
  • Jer 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
  • Jer 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
  • Zech 6:6 — The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.