Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!
Parallel translations
- WEB Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
- KJV Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O 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!
- 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.
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Cross-references · 7
- 1 Sam 25:44Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
- Jer 1:1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
- Josh 21:18Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs: four cities.
- Judg 18:7Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.
- Judg 18:29They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.
- Jer 32:8“So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to Yahweh’s word, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ “Then I knew that this was Yahweh’s word.
- 1 Kgs 2:26To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
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