World English Bible
"Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.""
— Jeremiah 4:6, World English Bible
“Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
“Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. ”
“Raise a signal flag that tells people to go to Zion. Run for safety! Do not delay! For I am about to bring disaster out of the north. It will bring great destruction.”
“Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.”
“Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
“Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.
Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Declare 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!'
Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."
A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn't turned back from us.
"It shall happen at that day," says Yahweh, "that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder."