Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
- BSB Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
- NKJV Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim! Cause it to be heard as far as Laish— O poor Anathoth!
- NASB Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!
- NLT Scream in terror, you people of Gallim! Shout out a warning to Laishah. Oh, poor Anathoth!
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Quick answer
The prophet calls the terrified towns to cry out as the enemy nears. The poetry conveys mounting alarm and distress.
Overview
Gallim, Laishah, and 'poor Anathoth' (later the hometown of Jeremiah) are summoned to wail as the Assyrian sweeps toward Jerusalem. The cries dramatize the helplessness of the people before the approaching threat. The passage intensifies the crisis to magnify the deliverance God will bring.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 1 Sam 25:44But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
- Jer 1:1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
- Josh 21:18Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
- Judg 18:7Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
- Judg 18:29And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.
- Jer 32:8So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
- 1 Kgs 2:26And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the LORD God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
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