Then the Lord said to me, “Out of the north the evil will be unleashed on all the inhabitants of the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then Yahweh said to me, “Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.
- KJV Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
- BSB Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
- NKJV Then the Lord said to me: “Out of the north calamity shall break forth On all the inhabitants of the land.
- NLT “Yes,” the Lord said, “for terror from the north will boil out on the people of this land.
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Quick answer
God interprets the vision: disaster will burst from the north on the land. Judgment is announced as imminent.
Overview
Yahweh explains that evil will break out from the north upon all the land's inhabitants. The looming threat is the armies that would descend on Judah for its covenant unfaithfulness. The warning shows that God's patience has limits and that persistent sin invites judgment.
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- Jer 6:1“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks out from the north, and a great destruction.
- Jer 4:6Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
- Jer 10:22The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.
- Isa 41:25“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
- Jer 50:9For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain.
- Jer 6:22Yahweh says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
- Jer 31:8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.
- Jer 50:41“Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
- Jer 46:20“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.
- Ezek 1:4I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire.
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