Yahweh says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Yahweh says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
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Thus saith the LORD: Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be roused from the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 6:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 10:22 The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.
- Jeremiah 50:41-43 “Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 1:14-15 Then Yahweh said to me, “Out of the north, evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land. For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says Yahweh. “They will come, and they will each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.
- Jeremiah 5:15 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.
- Jeremiah 6:1 “Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.
- Jeremiah 25:9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain It was no useless repetition when the Prophet said…
It was no useless repetition when the Prophet said so often that God said. He might have said only, “Behold, a nation shall come from the north;” but he premises by saying that he derived this message from God, and not only so, but he introduces God as the speaker, that his message might be more impressive. In the former verse he had also said, Thus saith Jehovah, and elsewhere: but he now repeats the same words, that the holy name of God might more powerfully rouse their minds.
Behold, he says, a people shall come from the land of the north For forty years Jeremiah ceased not to proclaim war against the Jews, and also openly to name their enemies: we yet see that so much preaching was without fruit. This was dreadful indeed: but we may thus see, as it were in a mirror, how great is our hardness and stupor, and how great is our fury and madness against God. He then designates here the Chaldeans as a northern nation, and says that it was a great nation: and yet he shews, that the Chaldeans would not of themselves come; it shall be roused, he says. This act is to be applied to God; for though ambition and avarice impelled the Chaldeans to lay waste nations and lands far and wide, yet that war was carried on under the guidance of God himself: he armed and impelled the Chaldeans, and used them as the scourges of his wrath. We may learn this from the verb יעור, iour, “shall be roused;” and he says, from the sides of the earth, for they came from a distant country. But the Prophet means, that there would be nothing to hinder the Chaldeans from entering Judea, and from destroying and putting to flight the people, and from demolishing the city and the temple.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain From Babylon by Dan, which was North from Jerusalem.
From Babylon by Dan, which was North from Jerusalem.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 6:22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people…
Jer 6:22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Ver. 22. Thus saith the Lord.] It is not in vain that this is so oft prefaced to the ensuing prophecies. Dictum Iehovae The word the Lord is very emphatic and authoritative.
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Behold, a people cometh from the north.] This the prophet had oft foretold for forty years together; sed surdis fabulam, but he could not be believed.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Now the prophet is showing what these destructive stumbling-blocks…
Now the prophet is showing what these destructive stumbling-blocks shall be, of which he had prophesied forty years already, and yet they would not be warned. The north country: see Jer 6:1.
A great nation shall be raised; God shall stir up the Chaldeans like a great storm or tempest, Jer 1:15; 25:32. See Eze 23:22.
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From the sides of the earth; the remote and uttermost parts of the Babylonian territories, though at the greatest distance, yet God will bring them: which may note the greatness of God’s displeasure against Judah, this circumstance being noted among the curses, Deu 28:49. See Isa 5:25,26, &c.; Jer 5:15.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus saith the Lord, behold, a people cometh from…
Thus saith the Lord, behold, a people cometh from the north country,.... The Assyrians from Babylon, which lay north of Judea, as in Jer 1:14,
and a great nation shall be raised; that is, by the Lord, who would stir them up to this undertaking. The Targum is,
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"many people shall come openly:''
from the sides of the earth; afar off, as Babylon was, Jer 5:15.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Behold - God shall stir up the Chaldeans like…
Behold - God shall stir up the Chaldeans like a great storm. The sides - The uttermost parts of the Babylonian territories.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Raised - Or, awakened, to undertake distant expeditions.
Raised - Or, awakened, to undertake distant expeditions.
The sides of the earth - Or ends, the most distant regions (see Jer 25:32).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain North. As Babylon lay with respect to Jerusalem, (Worthington)…
North. As Babylon lay with respect to Jerusalem, (Worthington) or rather to the east. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain north . . . sides of the earth--The ancients…
north . . . sides of the earth--The ancients were little acquainted with the north; therefore it is called the remotest regions (as the Hebrew for "sides" ought to be translated, see on Isa 14:13) of the earth. The Chaldees are meant (Jer 1:15; Jer 5:15). It is striking that the very same calamities which the Chaldeans had inflicted on Zion are threatened as the retribution to be dealt in turn to themselves by Jehovah (Jer 50:41-43).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain GREATNESS OF THE CALAMITY, Jer_6:22-30.
GREATNESS OF THE CALAMITY, Jer_6:22-30.
22. The north country — Babylonia.
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Sides of the earth — Rather, ends; most distant regions. As the enemy comes from these, so the captivity will be to these. (Jer_31:8.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. from the north country] The reference, originally at…
22. from the north country] The reference, originally at any rate, was to the Scythians. See on Jer_1:14.
22–30. The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) From the north country . . .—The words…
(22) From the north country . . .—The words point, as in Jer_1:13-15, to the Chaldæan, perhaps, also, to the Scythian, invasion. So the “north quarters” are used in Eze_38:6; Eze_38:15; Eze_39:2 of the home of Gog as the representative of the Scythian tribes.
Shall be raised.—Literally, shall be roused, or awakened.
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The sides of the earth.—sc., its ends, or far-off regions.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 22-30. The enemy described; the terror consequent on…
Vers. 22-30. The enemy described; the terror consequent on his arrival; a rumored declaration of the moral cause of the judgment.
From the north country. (so Jer_1:14 (see note) Jer_4:6) Shall be raised; rather, shall be aroused. The sides of the earth; rather, "the recesses (i.e. furthest parts) of the earth". (so Isa_14:13)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 6:22-30 This dialogue between Jeremiah and the Lord probably…
6:22-30 This dialogue between Jeremiah and the Lord probably took place at the beginning of the Babylonian invasion in 605 BC. In these three poems, Jeremiah declares the Lord’s message (6:22-23), identifies with his people’s fear, and urges them to repent quickly (6:24-26). He then receives a heart-to-heart message from the Lord (6:27-30).
6:22-23 The Lord reminded the people that the impending invasion was not fictitious; the soldiers had real bows and spears (Isa 13:18). • sound like a roaring sea: The sound of tens of thousands of soldiers with cavalry and chariots must have been terrifying (Isa 5:27-30).
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