Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Seek refuge, do not stand still,
For I am bringing
And great destruction.
King James Version
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Holman Bible
Run for cover! Don’t stand still!
For I am bringing disaster from the north—
a great destruction.
International Standard Version
Raise a standard in the direction of Zion. Flee! Don't stand around! For I'm bringing calamity from the north, along with great destruction.
American Standard Version
Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Amplified
“Raise a banner toward Zion [to mark the way for those seeking safety inside Jerusalem’s walls]!
Seek refuge, do not stand [immobile],
For I am bringing evil from the north (the army of Babylon),
And great destruction.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Set up a banner toward Zion; take to flight, stay not! For I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Julia Smith Translation
Lift up the signal of Zion: save ye by flight, ye shall not stand: for I bring evil from the north, and a great breaking.
King James 2000
Set up the standard toward Zion: take refuge, delay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I [am] bringing evil from [the] north, and a great destruction.
Modern King James verseion
Set up the banner toward Zion; flee for safety and do not wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Set up the token in Zion, speed you, and make no tarrying: for I will bring a great plague, and a great destruction from the north.
NET Bible
Raise a signal flag that tells people to go to Zion. Run for safety! Do not delay! For I am about to bring disaster out of the north. It will bring great destruction.
New Heart English Bible
Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety. Do not wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."
The Emphasized Bible
Lift up an ensign - Zion-ward, Bring into safety, do not tarry, - For, calamity, am, I, bringing in from the North, Even, a great destruction:
Webster
Set up the standard towards Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
World English Bible
Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."
Youngs Literal Translation
Lift up an ensign Zionward, Strengthen yourselves, stand not still, For evil I am bringing in from the north, And a great destruction.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 4:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
5
Declare ye in Judah and publish in Jerusalem and say, Blow ye the shofar in the land; cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
6
Seek refuge, do not stand still,
For I am bringing
And great destruction.
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:13-15
And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and its face is toward the north.
Jeremiah 50:2
Declare ye among the Gentiles, and publish, and set up a banner; publish, and do not conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Isaiah 62:10
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; clear up, clear up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner as an example for the people.
Jeremiah 4:21
How long shall I see the banner and hear the voice of the shofar?
Jeremiah 6:1
O ye sons of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem and blow the shofar in Tekoa and set up as a sign smoke in Bethhaccerem; for evil appears out of the north wind and great destruction.
Jeremiah 6:22
Thus hath the LORD said, Behold, a people come from the land of the north wind, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Jeremiah 51:12
Set up the banner upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has deliberated and shall put into effect that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:27
Set ye up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the Gentiles, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as raised up locusts.
Jeremiah 21:7
And afterward, thus hath the LORD said, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his slaves and the people and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their souls; and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not forgive them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north wind, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my slave, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about and will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 50:22
A sound of battle is in the land and of great destruction.
Jeremiah 51:54
The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Zephaniah 1:10
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate and a howling from the school and a great destruction from the hills.