Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Zion - the standard toward Zion intimated that the people of the surrounding country were to fly to it, as being the strongest of their fortresses.
Verse Jeremiah 4:6. _I WILL BRING EVIL FROM THE NORTH_] From the land of Chaldea....
THE STANDARD - A flag or signal, to which the people were to rally.RETIRE, STAY NOT - Rather, gather your goods together: linger not; “for I” (emphatic, Yahweh) am bringing at this very time etc....
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _ 2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5) 3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14) 4. The desolation of I
THE ENEMY'S APPROACH. Warning is given by the horn, and guidance, to the refugees fleeing to Jerusalem, by the standard; they are bidden to bring (their families) into safety (not flee for safety). Th...
SET... RETIRE... STAY. All plural. standard. EVIL. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. DESTRUCTION: or, breaking up....
Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite description o...
Flee without delay, if so be that walls can save you. The foe from the north threatens ruin to town and country alike. Terror shall seize the greatest in the land, and dismay the priests and prophets....
_Set up a standard_ to guide those who were seeking to attain the shelter of the walls of Jerusalem. _flee_ rather, MAKE ( YOUR HOUSEHOLDS) FLEE. Cp. mg. in Isaiah 10:31; and Exodus 9:19 ("hasten in...
BLOW YE THE TRUMPET— "Sound the alarm, that every one may save himself in the defenced cities: the enemy is come into the field; he hath set up his standard, _the lion from his thicket_ [Jeremiah 4:7....
CHAPTER SIX SERMONS FROM THE REIGN OF JOSIAH (Continued) III. GOD'S WARNING To HIS PEOPLE Jeremiah 4:5 to Jeremiah 6:26 Following his treatment of repentance Jeremiah takes up at length the subject...
4:6 destruction. (b-23) Lit. 'breaking;' and so ver. 20....
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
SET UP THE STANDARD] to mark out the safest route to those who were seeking the shelter of the walls of Jerusalem. EVIL FROM THE NORTH] The enemy (see Jeremiah 4:13) used chariots, and were therefore...
SET UP THE STANDARD TOWARD ZION. — Still the language of alarm. The words are as a command, “Raise the signal which shall point to Zion as a place of refuge from the foe, by whom the rest of the count...
שְׂאוּ ־נֵ֣ס צִיֹּ֔ונָה הָעִ֖יזוּ אַֽל ־תַּעֲמֹ֑דוּ...
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
Set up the standard toward Zion: (e) retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. (e) He speaks this to admonish them of the great danger when every man will prepa...
The Prophet here opens his commission to the men of Judah and Jerusalem; and in the prospect of the Babylonish captivity, now hastening, admonisheth them to seek the Lord. The Prophet, like a faithful...
The words אל-תעמדו, _al-tomedu, _may be explained in two ways, — “Stand not,” that is, “Hasten quickly,” as it is the case with those in extreme fear; or, “Ye shall not stand,” that is, “Though ye may...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
SET UP THE STANDARD TOWARD ZION,.... Not on the tower of Zion, as Kimchi interprets it; but on some high place, pointing to Zion, and directing the country people to flee thither for safety; for the s...
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. Ver. 6. _Set up the standard towards Zion._] All this seemeth to be ironically spoken...
_Blow ye the trumpet_ The Lord, being now about to bring enemies upon them, speaks in martial language, warning them of the nature of their approaching judgment. It is the beginning of a new discourse...
Set up the standard toward Zion, raising their banners as a signal to make the city of God their refuge; RETIRE, STAY NOT, flee, do not try to make a stand! FOR I WILL BRING EVIL FROM THE NORTH AND A...
DESCRIPTION OF THE JUDGMENT UNDER THREE EMBLEMS...
RETIRE: Or, strengthen DESTRUCTION: _ Heb._ breaking...
5-18 The fierce conqueror of the neighbouring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by false prophets. The approach of the enemy is desc...
SET UP THE STANDARD, i.e. for them to resort to, as is usual in war; and it is therefore said to he towards Zion or Jerusalem, as being a signal to show them whither they should repair; see JEREMIAH 1...
Jeremiah 4:6 up H5375 (H8798) standard H5251 Zion H6726 refuge H5756 (H8685) delay H5975 (H8799) bring...
JUDAH ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE AS WELL AS ISRAEL FOR THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR LAND, AND, IF THEY WILL ONLY TRULY TURN TO HIM WITH GENUINELY CHANGED HEARTS, CAN STILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE IN HOPE....
YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3). If Judah will not respond to th...
Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir, novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 4:5 JUDAH and JERUSALEM must prepare for war. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter, _Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced cities_....
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, _If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto me_;_ and if thou wilt...
But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
Isaiah 62:10; Jeremiah 1:13; Jeremiah 21:7; Jeremiah 25:9; Jerem
Retire — Make haste away....