Parallel Verses

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."

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 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.

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 publish in Jerusalem; and say, 'Blow the trumpet in the land!' Cry aloud and say, 'Assemble yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!' 6 Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction." 7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.



Cross References

Jeremiah 1:13-15

The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, "What do you see?" I said, "I see a boiling caldron; and it is tipping away from the north."

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.

Isaiah 62:10

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Cast up, cast up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 6:1

"Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.

Jeremiah 6:22

Thus says Yahweh, "Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

Jeremiah 51:12

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:27

Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.

Jeremiah 21:7

Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, 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, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I 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 from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

Zephaniah 1:10

In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

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