How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
Jeremiah 4:15 - English Standard Version 2016 For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims trouble 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 upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!— a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.
Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms out of the north, and great destruction.
“The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it.
And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.
Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.