Jeremiah 4:15

Bible in Basic English

For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out evil from the hills of Ephraim:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For a voice announces from Dan,proclaiming malice from Mount Ephraim.

Hebrew Names Version
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Efrayim:

King James Version
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

English Standard Version
For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims trouble from Mount Ephraim.

New American Standard Bible
For a voice declares from Dan, And proclaims wickedness from Mount Ephraim.

New Century Version
A voice from Dan makes an announcement and brings bad news from the mountains of Ephraim.

Amplified Bible
For a voice declares from Dan [far in the north], And proclaims evil from Mount Ephraim.

World English Bible
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:

Geneva Bible (1587)
For a voyce declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

Legacy Standard Bible
For a voice declares from Dan,And makes wickedness heard from Mount Ephraim.

Berean Standard Bible
For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from Mount Ephraim.

Contemporary English Version
before a message of disaster arrives from the hills of Ephraim and the town of Dan.

Complete Jewish Bible
For a voice is announcing the news from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Efrayim:

Darby Translation
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

Easy-to-Read Version
Listen! The voice of a messenger from the land of Dan is speaking. Someone is bringing bad news from the hill country of Ephraim:

George Lamsa Translation
For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims affliction from mount Ephraim.

Good News Translation
Messengers from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim announce the bad news.

Lexham English Bible
For a voice is declaring from Dan, and is proclaiming disaster from the mountain of Ephraim.

Literal Translation
For a voice announces from Dan, and proclaims evil from Mount Ephraim.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For a voyce from Dan and from ye hill of Ephraim speaketh out, and telleth of a destruction.

American Standard Version
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills of Ephraim.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For hark! one declareth from Dan, and announceth calamity from the hills of Ephraim:

King James Version (1611)
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For a voyce from Dan and from the hill of Ephraim speaketh out, and telleth of a destruction.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of mount Ephraim shall be heard of.

English Revised Version
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills of Ephraim:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi the vois of a tellere fro Dan, and makynge knowun an idol fro the hil of Effraym.

Update Bible Version
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:

Webster's Bible Translation
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

New English Translation
For messengers are coming, heralding disaster, from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim.

New King James Version
For a voice declares from Dan And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim:

New Living Translation
Your destruction has been announced from Dan and the hill country of Ephraim.

New Life Bible
For a voice calls out from Dan, and tells of sin from Mount Ephraim.

New Revised Standard
For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims disaster from Mount Ephraim.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For a voice, declareth from Dan, - And publisheth trouble from the hill country of Ephraim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving notice of the idol from mount Ephraim.

Revised Standard Version
For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims evil from Mount E'phraim.

Young's Literal Translation
For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount Ephraim.

THE MESSAGE
What's this? A messenger from Dan? Bad news from Ephraim's hills! Make the report public. Broadcast the news to Jerusalem: "Invaders from far off are raising war cries against Judah's towns. They're all over her, like a dog on a bone. And why? Because she rebelled against me." God 's Decree.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For a voice declares from Dan, And proclaims wickedness from Mount Ephraim.

Contextual Overview

⁵ Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns. ⁶ Put 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. ⁷ A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them. ⁸ For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us. ⁹ And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder. ¹⁰ Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul. ¹¹ At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain; ¹² A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them. ¹³ See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us. ¹⁴ O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a voice: Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 8:16, Judges 18:29, Judges 20:1

mount Ephraim: Joshua 17:15, Joshua 20:7

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 20:21 - a man Jeremiah 30:5 - a voice

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

Leviticus 26:18
And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins.

Leviticus 26:21
And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins.

Leviticus 26:24
Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.

Leviticus 26:28
Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.

1 Kings 16:7
And the Lord sent his word against Baasha and his family by the mouth of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, because of all the evil he did in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam, and because he put it to death.

Psalms 59:11
Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

Psalms 79:12
And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

Proverbs 6:31
But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For a voice declareth from Dan,.... The coming of the enemy, as Kimchi explains it, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans; a messenger was come from Dan, which was on the border of the land of Israel to the north, on which side Babylon lay, and from whence the evil was to come predicted; who declared the enemy was approaching, just entering the land; not that this was now the case in fact, but this is represented in a prophetic manner, as what would be, in order to arouse and awaken the Jews to a sense of their sin and danger; see Jeremiah 8:10

and publisheth affliction from Mount Ephraim: which lay on the border of the tribe of Benjamin, and nearer to Jerusalem; and this publication represents the enemy as advancing nearer, and being just at hand. The word for "affliction" signifies "iniquity" a; and it denotes, that the affliction spoken of, which is the destruction of the Jews, and their captivity in Babylon, were occasioned by their sins. Some think that Dan and Ephraim are mentioned, because of the calves that were worshipped in Dan, and in Bethel, which was in the tribe of Ephraim. The Targum favours this, which paraphrases the words thus,

"for the voice of the prophets that prophesied against them that go into captivity, because they worshipped the calf, which is at Dan; and they that bring evil tidings, shall come upon them, because they served the image which Micah set up in the mount of the house of Ephraim;''

and the Vulgate Latin version is,

"the voice of him that declares from Dan, and that makes known the idol from Mount Ephraim.''

a און "iniquitatem", Vatablus, Pagninus, Montanus, Schimdt; "vanitatem", Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dan - The border-town of Palestine on the north Deuteronomy 34:1.

Mount Ephraim - The northern boundary of Judaea itself. The invading army presses on so rapidly, that scarcely have the news arrived of its appearance at Dan, before fresh messengers announce that it has traversed the whole length of Galilee, and is now defiling through the mountains of Samaria.

Affliction - The same word, aven, occurs in Jeremiah 4:14, and apparently there is a play upon its double meaning: for from a root signifying worthlessness, it is used both for wickedness and for misery. Thus, the “iniquity” of Judah proves also, to be her “affliction,” as being the cause of the ruin inflicted by the enemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 4:15. For a voice declareth from Dan — Dan was a city in the tribe of Dan, north of Jerusalem; the first city in Palestine, which occurs in the way from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Affliction from Mount Ephraim. — Between Dan and Jerusalem are the mountains of Ephraim. These would be the first places attacked by the Chaldeans; and the rumour from thence would show that the land was invaded.