Jeremiah 4:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ “Announce to the nations, look, proclaim against Yerushalayim, that besiegers are coming from a distant land and raise their voice against the cities of Yehuḏ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Warn the [neighboring] nations [that our adversary is coming]; announce to Jerusalem that besiegers are coming from a far country, and they shout against the cities of Judah.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Warn the nations, proclaim it to Jerusalem! Armies are approaching from a far-away country, raising their war cries against the towns of Judah.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Say to the nations: 'Behold, it has been heard in Jerusalem! Guardians are coming from a far away land, to utter their voice against the cities of Judah.'

Jeremiah 4:16 Cross References

Isaiah 34:1

Come near, you gentiles, to hear. And listen, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world and all its offspring.

Isaiah 39:3

And Yeshayahu the prophet went to Sovereign Ḥ

Jeremiah 1:15

“For look, I am calling all the clans of the reigns of the north,” declares יהוה. “And they shall come and each one set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Yerushalayim, against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 16:6

“Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them, or cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.

Jeremiah 2:15

“The young lions roared at him, they growled, and made his land waste; his cities have been burned, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 31:10

“Hear the word of יהוה, O gentiles, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, ‘He who scattered Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 39:1

In the ninth year of Tsiḏ

Jeremiah 4:17

“Like keepers of a field they are against her all around, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 5:15

“See, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall smite them, a wolf of the deserts ravage them. A leopard is watching over their cities, whoever comes out of them is torn in pieces. For their transgressions have been many, their backslidings have been numerous.

Jeremiah 50:2

“Declare among the nations, and let it be heard. And lift up a banner, let it be heard, and do not conceal it. Say, ‘Baḇ

Jeremiah 6:18

“Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is upon them!

Jeremiah 6:19

“Hear, O earth! See, I am bringing evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My words, nor My Torah – and they rejected it.

Jeremiah 6:22

Thus said יהוה, “See, a people shall come from the land of the north, and a great nation is stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth,

Jeremiah 6:23

they seize bow and spear, they are cruel and have no compassion, their voice roars like the sea. And they ride on horses, set in array as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Tsiyon.”

Jeremiah 8:19

Observe! The voice, the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land, “Is יהוה  not in Tsiyon? Is her Sovereign not in her?” “Why have they provoked Me with their carved images, and with foreign worthlessnesses?”

Ezekiel 21:22

“In his right hand shall be the divination for Yerushalayim: to set up battering rams, to call for a slaughter, to lift the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege mound, to build a wall.