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the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Good News Translation

Jeremiah 4:15

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

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.
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.
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 Blow the trumpet throughout the land! Shout loud and clear! Tell the people of Judah and Jerusalem to run to the fortified cities. 6 Point the way to Zion! Run for safety! Don't delay! The Lord is bringing disaster and great destruction from the north. 7 Like a lion coming from its hiding place, a destroyer of nations has set out. He is coming to destroy Judah. The cities of Judah will be left in ruins, and no one will live in them. 8 So put on sackcloth, and weep and wail because the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from Judah. 9 The Lord said, "On that day kings and officials will lose their courage; priests will be shocked and prophets will be astonished." 10 Then I said, "Sovereign Lord , you have completely deceived the people of Jerusalem! You have said there would be peace, but a sword is at their throats." 11 The time is coming when the people of Jerusalem will be told that a scorching wind is blowing in from the desert toward them. It will not be a gentle wind that only blows away the chaff— 12 the wind that comes at the Lord 's command will be much stronger than that! It is the Lord himself who is pronouncing judgment on his people. 13 Look, the enemy is coming like clouds. Their war chariots are like a whirlwind, and their horses are faster than eagles. We are lost! We are doomed! 14 Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved. How long will you go on thinking sinful thoughts?

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 taken to pay for killing Cain, Seventy-seven will be taken if anyone kills me."
Leviticus 26:18
"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.
Leviticus 26:21
"If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.
Leviticus 26:24
then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.
Leviticus 26:28
then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.
1 Kings 16:7
That message from the Lord against Baasha and his family was given by the prophet Jehu because of the sins that Baasha committed against the Lord . He aroused the Lord 's anger not only because of the evil he did, just as King Jeroboam had done before him, but also because he killed all of Jeroboam's family.
Psalms 59:11
Do not kill them, O God, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your strength and defeat them, O Lord, our protector.
Psalms 79:12
Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.
Ezekiel 9:4
"Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city."

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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