For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Parallel translations
- WEB For Yahweh says: “We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
- BSB Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.
- NKJV “For thus says the Lord: ‘We have heard a voice of trembling, Of fear, and not of peace.
- NASB “For this is what the Lord says: ‘I have heard a sound of terror, Of fear, and there is no peace.
- NLT This is what the Lord says: “I hear cries of fear; there is terror and no peace.
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Quick answer
God describes a coming sound of terror and dread rather than peace. A day of distress precedes restoration.
Overview
Before comfort comes a vivid depiction of panic and fear, the anguish that accompanies God's judgment. This realism reminds readers that restoration often follows a season of trouble. It sets the stage for the 'time of Jacob's trouble' that follows.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Amos 8:10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
- Isa 5:30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
- Luke 19:41–44And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
- Zeph 1:10–11And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
- Jer 6:23–25They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
- Amos 5:16–18Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
- Jer 9:19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
- Jer 8:19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
- Luke 23:29–30For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
- Jer 4:15–20For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
- Jer 46:5Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
- Luke 21:25–26And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
- Isa 59:11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
- Jer 25:36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
- Jer 31:15–16Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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