How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
Jeremiah 4:15 - New Revised Standard Version For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims disaster 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 the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
Hear, a noise! Listen, it is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.
Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil 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 live in it.
And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear ground there 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.
They named the city Dan, after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was formerly Laish.
Then all the Israelites came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled in one body before the Lord at Mizpah.