How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the herald, who proclaims peace, who brings news of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns! ’
Jeremiah 4:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For a voice announces from Dan, proclaiming malice from Mount Ephraim. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For a voice declares from Dan [in the north] and proclaims evil from Mount Ephraim [the range dividing Israel from Judah]. American Standard Version (1901) For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills of Ephraim. Common English Bible A voice declares from Dan; someone proclaims disaster from the highlands of Ephraim. Catholic Public Domain Version For there is a voice, of someone announcing from Dan, and he is making known the idol from mount Ephraim. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For a voice of one declaring from Dan, and giving notice of the idol from mount Ephraim. |
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the herald, who proclaims peace, who brings news of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns! ’
Listen! A noise #– #it is coming – a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made desolate, a jackals’ den.
‘Run for cover out of Jerusalem, Benjaminites. Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; raise a smoke signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster threatens from the north, even a crushing blow.
From Dan, the snorting of horses is heard. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all its residents.
‘If you have so many people,’ Joshua replied to them, ‘go to the forest and clear an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, because Ephraim’s hill country is too small for you.’
So they designated Kedesh in the hill country of Naphtali in Galilee, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
They named the city Dan, after the name of their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel. The city was formerly named Laish.
All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the community assembled as one body before the Lord at Mizpah.