Jeremiah 4:5-9
Lexham English Bible
An Invasion from the North
5 Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say,
“Blow a horn through the land,
call with a loud voice[a] and say,
‘Be gathered and let us go into the fortified cities.’
6 Lift up a signal toward Zion,
bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing,
for I am bringing evil from the north,
and a great destruction.
7 A lion has gone up from his thicket,
and a destroyer of nations has set out.
He has gone out from his place to make your land as a horror,
your cities will go to ruin without[b] inhabitant.
8 Because of this gird yourselves with sackcloth,[c] lament and wail,
for the burning anger[d] of Yahweh has not turned back from us.
9 And then on that day,” declares[e] Yahweh,
“the heart of the king and the heart of the officials will be destroyed,
and the priests will be appalled,
and the prophets will be astonished.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:5 Literally “call fill”
- Jeremiah 4:7 Literally “from not”
- Jeremiah 4:8 Hebrew “sackcloths”
- Jeremiah 4:8 Literally “the blaze of the nose”
- Jeremiah 4:9 Literally “a declaration of”
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