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Contemporary English Version

Jeremiah 4:15

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Condescension of God;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jeremiah;   Minister, Christian;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Dan;   Kir-Hareseth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jeremiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephraim, Mount;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dan;  

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out 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 The Lord said: "Sound the trumpets, my people. Warn the people of Judah, ‘Run for your lives! 6 Head for Jerusalem or another walled town!' "Jeremiah, tell them I'm sending disaster from the north. 7 An army will come out, like a lion from its den. It will destroy nations and leave your towns empty and in ruins." 8 Then I said to the people of Israel, "Put on sackcloth! Mourn and cry out, ‘The Lord is still angry with us.'" 9 The Lord said, "When all this happens, the king and his officials, the prophets and the priests will be shocked and terrified." 10 I said, "You are the Lord God. So why have you fooled everyone, especially the people of Jerusalem? Why did you promise peace, when a knife is at our throats?" 11When disaster comes, the Lord will tell you people of Jerusalem, "I am sending a windstorm from the desert— not a welcome breeze. And it will sweep you away as punishment for your sins. < 13 Look! The enemy army swoops down like an eagle; their cavalry and chariots race faster than storm clouds blown by the wind." Then you will answer, "We are doomed!" 14 But Jerusalem, there is still time for you to be saved. Wash the evil from your hearts and stop making sinful plans, 15 before a message of disaster arrives from the hills of Ephraim and the town of Dan.

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
Anyone who tries to get even with me will be punished ten times more than anyone who tries to get even with Cain."
Leviticus 26:18
Then, if you still refuse to obey me, I will punish you seven times for each of your sins,
Leviticus 26:21
If you keep rebelling against me, I'll punish you seven times worse, just as your sins deserve!
Leviticus 26:24
I'll remain your enemy and punish you even worse.
Leviticus 26:28
I'll really get furious and punish you terribly for your sins!
Psalms 59:11
Don't kill them, or everyone may forget! Just use your mighty power to make them tremble and fall. You are a shield for your people.
Psalms 79:12
Each of those nations sneered at you, our Lord. Now let others sneer at them, seven times as much.
Proverbs 6:31
And thieves who get caught must pay back seven times what was stolen and lose everything.
Ezekiel 9:4
"Walk through the city of Jerusalem and mark the forehead of anyone who is truly upset and sad about the disgusting things that are being done here."
Hosea 1:4
Then the Lord said, "Hosea, name your son Jezreel, because I will soon punish the descendants of King Jehu of Israel for the murders he committed in Jezreel Valley. I will destroy his kingdom,

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 DanDan 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.


 
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