Jeremiah 4:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Raise the signal—to Zion! Seek refuge! Don’t stand there! Disaster I bring from the north, and great destruction.

Cross References

Isaiah 62:10

Pass through, pass through the gates, prepare a way for the people; Build up, build up the highway, clear it of stones, raise up a standard over the nations.

Jeremiah 10:22

Listen! a rumor! here it comes, a great commotion from the land of the north: To make the cities of Judah a desolation, the haunt of jackals.

Jeremiah 18:11

And now, tell this to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am fashioning evil against you and making a plan. Return, all of you, from your evil way; reform your ways and your deeds.

Jeremiah 21:7

After that—oracle of the Lord—I will hand over Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his ministers and the people in this city who survive pestilence, sword, and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to their enemies and those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword, without quarter, without mercy or compassion.

Jeremiah 22:7

Against you I will send destroyers, each with their tools: They shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the signal, hear the blast of the horn!

Jeremiah 50:2

Proclaim this among the nations, announce it! Announce it, do not hide it, but say: Babylon is captured, Bel put to shame, Marduk terrified; its images are put to shame, its idols shattered.

Jeremiah 50:22

Battle alarm in the land, great destruction!

Jeremiah 51:12

Over the walls of Babylon raise a signal, reinforce the watch; Post sentries, arrange ambushes! For the Lord has both planned and carried out what he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:27

Raise a signal in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations; Dedicate nations for war against her, summon against her the kingdoms: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; Appoint a recruiting officer against her, dispatch horses like bristling locusts.

Jeremiah 51:54

A sound of crying from Babylon, great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;

Jeremiah 6:1

Seek refuge, Benjaminites, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, raise a signal over Beth-haccherem; For disaster threatens from the north, and mighty destruction.

Jeremiah 6:22

Thus says the Lord: See, a people comes from the land of the north, a great nation, rising from the very ends of the earth.

Ezekiel 9:1

Then he cried aloud for me to hear: Come, you scourges of the city!

Ezekiel 9:2

And there were six men coming from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with a weapon of destruction in his hand. In their midst was a man dressed in linen, with a scribe’s case at his waist. They entered and stood beside the bronze altar.

Zephaniah 1:10

On that day—oracle of the Lord— A cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, loud crashing from the hills.

Zechariah 6:6

The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, and the white horses go toward the west, and the dappled ones go toward the land of the south.”