Parallel Verses

Amplified


Do not go out into the field
Nor walk on the road,
For the enemy is armed with the sword;
Terror is on every side.

New American Standard Bible

Do not go out into the field
And do not walk on the road,
For the enemy has a sword,
Terror is on every side.

King James Version

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

Holman Bible

Don’t go out to the fields;
don’t walk on the road.
For the enemy has a sword;
terror is on every side.

International Standard Version

Don't go out into the field, and don't travel on the road, because the enemy has a sword, and terror is on every side.

A Conservative Version

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way, for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

American Standard Version

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, and terror, are on every side.

Bible in Basic English

Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

Darby Translation

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, terror is on every side.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not go forth to the field, and thou shalt not go by the way; for the sword to the enemy, fear from round about.

King James 2000

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You must not go out [into] the field, and you must not walk on the road, for {the enemy has a sword}, terror [is] all around.

Modern King James verseion

Do not go out into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear are on every side.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

No man go forth into the field, no man come upon the high street: for the sword and fear of the enemy shall be on every side!"

NET Bible

Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere."

New Heart English Bible

Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror, are on every side."

The Emphasized Bible

Do not go out into the field, And in the road, do not walk,-Because a sword, hath the foe, - Terror round about!

Webster

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

World English Bible

Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

Youngs Literal Translation

Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear is round about.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Go not forth
יצא 
Yatsa' 
....out, ....forth, bring, come, proceed, go, depart,
Usage: 1068

into the field
שׂדי שׂדה 
Sadeh 
Usage: 333

ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

by the way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

for the sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

of the enemy
אויב איב 
'oyeb 
Usage: 272

and fear
מגוּר מגור 
Magowr 
Usage: 8

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A Cruel Nation From The North

24
We have heard the report of it;
Our hands become limp and helpless.
Anguish has gripped us,
Pain like that of a woman in childbirth.
25 
Do not go out into the field
Nor walk on the road,
For the enemy is armed with the sword;
Terror is on every side.
26
O daughter of my people [says Jeremiah],
Clothe yourself in sackcloth and wallow in ashes;
Mourn [aloud] as for an only son,
A most bitter cry [of sorrow and regret],
For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us [on both prophet and people].



Cross References

Jeremiah 49:29


“They (the Babylonians) will take away their tents and their flocks;
They will carry off for themselves
Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels,
And they will call out to one another, ‘Terror on every side!’

Job 18:11


“Terrors frighten him on every side
And chase at his heels.

Psalm 31:13


For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.

Jeremiah 14:18


‘If I go out into the field,
Then I gaze on those slaughtered with the sword!
And if I enter the city,
Then I gaze on [those tormented with] the diseases of famine!
For both prophet and priest [who should have guided the people]
Go about [bewildered and exiled] in a land (Babylon) that they do not know or understand.’”

Jeremiah 20:10


For I have heard the whispering and defaming words of many,
“Terror on every side!
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
All my familiar and trusted friends,
[Those who are] watching for my fall, say,
“Perhaps he will be persuaded and deceived; then we will overcome him,
And take our revenge on him.”

Judges 5:6-7


“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,
In the days of Jael, the highways were deserted,
And travelers went by roundabout ways.

2 Chronicles 15:5

In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, for great suffering came on all the inhabitants of the lands.

Isaiah 1:20


But if you refuse and rebel,
You shall be devoured by the sword.”
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Jeremiah 4:5


Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say,
“Blow the trumpet in the land;
Cry aloud and say,
‘Assemble yourselves, and let us go
Into the fortified cities.’

Jeremiah 4:10

Then I said, “Alas, Lord God! Surely You have completely deceived and misled this people and Jerusalem, [for the prophets represented You as] saying [to Your people], ‘You will have peace,’ but [in fact] a sword reaches to their throat.”

Jeremiah 8:14


Why are we sitting still [the people wonder]?
Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified cities
And let us die there,
For the Lord our God has decreed our ruin
And given us bitter and poisonous water to drink,
Because we have sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 20:3-4

And the next day Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib (terror on every side).

Luke 19:43

For a time [of siege] is coming when your enemies will put up a barricade [with pointed stakes] against you, and surround you [with armies] and hem you in on every side,

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