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11 Terrors frighten them on every side
    and chase them at their heels.(A)

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21 Terrifying sounds are in their ears;
    in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.(A)

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25 Do not go out into the field
    or walk on the road,
for the enemy has a sword;
    terror is on every side.”(A)

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29 They take their tents and their flocks,
    their curtains and all their goods;
they carry off their camels for themselves,
    and a cry shall go up: “Terror is all around!”(A)

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Why do I see them terrified?
    They have fallen back;
their warriors are beaten down
    and have fled in haste.
They do not look back—
    terror is all around!
            says the Lord.(A)

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25 It is drawn forth and comes out of their body,
    and the glittering point comes out of their gall;
    terrors come upon them.(A)

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36 And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.(A)

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15 Then the kings of the earth and the magnates and the generals and the rich and the powerful and everyone, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,(A) 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,(B)

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The Ministry of Reconciliation

11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences.(A)

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The next morning when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord has named you not Pashhur but ‘Terror-all-around.’ For thus says the Lord: I am making you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; he shall carry them captive to Babylon and shall kill them with the sword.(A)

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28 The wicked flee when no one pursues,
    but the righteous are as bold as a lion.(A)

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19 How they are destroyed in a moment,
    swept away utterly by terrors!(A)

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There they shall be in great terror,
    in terror such as has not been.
For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly;[a]
    they will be put to shame,[b] for God has rejected them.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 53.5 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb him who encamps against you
  2. 53.5 Gk: Heb you have put (them) to shame

They will fly away like a dream and not be found;
    they will be chased away like a vision of the night.(A)

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For the arrows of the Almighty[a] are in me;
    my spirit drinks their poison;
    the terrors of God are arrayed against me.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.4 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to fight against us.”(A) So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp just as it was, and fled for their lives.(B)

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