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Jeremiah 4:6 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 4 · verse 6
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.Jeremiah 4:6 · King James Version
Jeremiah 4:6 in context
4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
6Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- standardnêça flagH5251 →
- retireʻûwzto be strongH5756 →
- bringbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- northtsâphôwnproperly, hiddenH6828 →
- greatgâdôwlgreatH1419 →
- ZionTsîyôwnTsijon , a mountain of JerusalemH6726 →
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God's usual method is to warn before he wounds. In these verses, accordingly, God gives notice to the Jews of the general desolation that would shortly be brought upon them by a foreign invasion.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-18