Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

“Lift up a standard toward Zion!
Seek refuge, do not stand still,
For I am bringing evil from the north,
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

Lift up a signal flag toward Zion.
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 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Set up
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

the standard
נס 
Nec 
Usage: 20

ציּון 
Tsiyown 
Usage: 154

עוּז 
`uwz 
Usage: 4

not for I will bring

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

from the north
צפן צפון 
Tsaphown 
Usage: 153

and a great
גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

References

Easton

Watsons

Context Readings

An Invasion From The North

5 Declare in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem; and say, Blow the trumpet in the land; cry, gather together, and say, Gather yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities. 6 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. 7 The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations has set out; he has left his place to make your land a waste. Your cities will fall into ruins without inhabitant.

Cross References

Jeremiah 1:13-15

And the Word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot; and its face is from the face of the north.

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare among the nations, and cause them to hear, and lift up a banner. Cause them to hear, do not hide it; say, Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is broken in pieces; her images are shamed, her idols are broken in pieces.

Isaiah 62:10

Pass! Pass through the gates; prepare the way of the people. Raise up! Raise up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I see the banner and hear the sound of the ram's horn?

Jeremiah 6:1

O sons of Benjamin, take refuge out of the midst of Jerusalem. And blow the ram's horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal-fire over Beth-haccerem; for evil appears out of the north, and great ruin.

Jeremiah 6:22

So says Jehovah, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be stirred from the sides of the earth.

Jeremiah 51:12

Set up the banner on the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up the watchmen; prepare the ambushes. For Jehovah has both planned and done that which He spoke against the people of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:27

Set up a banner in the land; blow a trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations against her. Call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her; set a commander against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.

Jeremiah 21:7

And afterward, says Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. And he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor have mercy.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and will bring them against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations all around. And I will completely destroy them, and make them a waste, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.

Jeremiah 50:22

A sound of battle is in the land, and of great ruin.

Jeremiah 51:54

A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great ruin from the land of the Chaldeans,

Zephaniah 1:10

And it shall be in that day, says Jehovah, the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great crashing from the hills.

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