Jeremiah 4:15

Young's Literal Translation

For a voice is declaring from Dan, And sounding sorrow from mount 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.

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.

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 Declare in Judah, and in Jerusalem sound, And say ye, `Blow a trumpet in the land,' Call ye fully, and say ye: `Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced city.' ⁶ Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction. ⁷ Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant. ⁸ For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us. ⁹ And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah: `Perish doth the heart of the king, And the heart of the princes, And astonished have been the priests, And the prophets do wonder.' <sup>10</sup> And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, Surely thou hast entirely forgotten this people and Jerusalem, saying, Peace is for you, And struck hath a sword unto the soul!' ¹¹ At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: `A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,) ¹² A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them. ¹³ Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Wo to us, for we have been spoiled. ¹⁴ Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

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
For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'

Leviticus 26:18
`And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, -- then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins;

Leviticus 26:21
`And if ye walk with Me [in] opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins,

Leviticus 26:24
then I have walked -- I also -- with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

Leviticus 26:28
then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

1 Kings 16:7
And also by the hand of Jehu son of Hanani the prophet a word of Jehovah hath been concerning Baasha, and concerning his house, and concerning all the evil that he did in the eyes of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger with the work of his hands, to be like the house of Jeroboam, and concerning that for which he smote him.

Psalms 59:11
Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Psalms 79:12
And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.

Proverbs 6:31
And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.

Ezekiel 9:4
And He calleth unto the man who is clothed with linen, who hath the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and Jehovah saith unto him, `Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and thou hast made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.'

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.