Jeremiah 1:14 “Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out…”

Jeremiah 1:14

Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

World English Bible

Then the LORD said to me, “Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.

American Standard Version

Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then saide the Lord vnto me, Out of the North shall a plague be spred vpon all the inhabitants of the land.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north shall evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

Young's Literal Translation

And Jehovah saith unto me, 'From the north is the evil loosed against all inhabitants of the land.

Bible in Basic English

Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.

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Cross references

“Out of”

Jeremiah 4:6 Jeremiah 6:1 Jeremiah 10:22 Isaiah 41:25 Jeremiah 6:22 Jeremiah 31:8

Jeremiah 4:6 · BSB

Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.

Jeremiah 6:1 · BSB

“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.

Jeremiah 10:22 · BSB

Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.

Isaiah 41:25 · BSB

I have raised up one from the north, and he has come— one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

Jeremiah 6:22 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.

Jeremiah 31:8 · BSB

Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”

15For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.

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