Don’t go out to the fields! Don’t travel on the roads! The enemy’s sword is everywhere and terrorizes us at every turn!
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t go out into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror, are on every side.
- KJV Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
- BSB Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
- NKJV Do not go out into the field, Nor walk by the way. Because of the sword of the enemy, Fear is on every side.
- NASB 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.
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Quick answer
The danger is so great that no one dares go out, for the enemy's sword and terror are on every side. The coming judgment will leave no safe place.
Overview
The warning to stay indoors pictures a land paralyzed by siege, surrounded by deadly threat. 'Terror on every side' becomes a recurring phrase in Jeremiah for inescapable judgment. It dramatizes the comprehensive nature of the disaster awaiting an unrepentant people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Jer 49:29They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, Terror on every side!
- Jer 20:10For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”
- Job 18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
- Jer 14:18If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’”
- Ps 31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
- Luke 19:43For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
- Judg 5:6–7“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
- Jer 4:5Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!’
- Isa 1:20but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
- Jer 20:3–4On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
- Jer 4:10Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
- 2 Chr 15:5In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
- Jer 8:14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
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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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