Jeremia 4:6

Lutherbibel

Werft zu Zion ein Panier auf; flieht und säumt nicht! Denn ich bringe ein Unglück herzu von Mitternacht und einen großen Jammer.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Richtet ein Panier auf, nach Zion hin, fliehet und stehet nicht stille! Denn ich bringe Unglück und eine große Zerstörung von Norden her:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the standard: Jeremiah 4:21, Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 51:12, Jeremiah 51:27, Isaiah 62:10

retire: or, strengthen

for I will: Jeremiah 1:13-15, Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 6:22, Jeremiah 21:7, Jeremiah 25:9

and a great: Jeremiah 50:22, Jeremiah 51:54

destruction: Heb. breaking, Zephaniah 1:10

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 1:14 - Out of Jeremiah 4:20 - upon destruction Jeremiah 6:24 - We have Jeremiah 8:14 - enter Jeremiah 10:22 - the noise Jeremiah 22:7 - I Jeremiah 46:6 - toward Ezekiel 1:4 - a whirlwind Habakkuk 1:6 - I raise Zechariah 6:6 - the north

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Set up the standard toward Zion,.... Not on the tower of Zion, as Kimchi interprets it; but on some high place, pointing to Zion, and directing the country people to flee thither for safety; for the setting up of the standard here is not for enlisting of soldiers in order to fight, but as a sign of danger, and a direction where to flee from it:

retire; gather yourselves together in order to flee, as the word p is rendered in Isaiah 10:31, though some render it, "be ye strengthened" q; take heart, and play the man; but this does not seem so agreeable to the context:

stay not; or, "stand not"; stand not in the place ye are in, but move from it in all haste, because of present danger:

for I will bring evil from the north; from Babylon, as Kimchi interprets it; which lay north to the land of Israel; and so designs the captivity Judah should be brought into there:

and a great destruction or, "breach" r; which the Babylonians should make on the inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem.

p העיזו "congregate vos, [sub.] ad fugiendum", Vatablus; "confirmate vos [ad fugiendum]", Piscator. q "Confortamini", V. L. "corroboramiui", Castalio; "agite viriliter", Munster. r שבר "contritionem", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "confractionem", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The standard - A flag or signal, to which the people were to rally.Retire, stay not - Rather, gather your goods together: linger not; “for I” (emphatic, Yahweh) am bringing at this very time etc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 4:6. I will bring evil from the north — From the land of Chaldea.