Jeremiah 6:4
Hallow ye against her a war, Arise! and let us go up in broad noon. Woe to us, for the day, hath turned, for the shadows of evening, stretch along.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
5Arise! and let us go up in the night, And let us destroy her palaces.
Cross References
Job 7:2As, a bondman, panteth for the shadow, and as, a hireling, longeth for his wage,
Isaiah 5:26Therefore will he lift up an ensign to the nations afar off, And signal for him from the end of the earth,—And lo! with hot haste, will he come:
Jeremiah 5:10Scale ye her walls and destroy, But a full end, do not make,—Remove her tendrils, For not to Yahweh, do, they, belong!
Jeremiah 15:8Their widows have become multiplied to me, beyond the sand of the seas, I have brought against them—upon the mother of young men—the spoiler in the broad noon,—I have let fall upon her suddenly, excitement and terrors.
Joel 3:9Proclaim ye this, among the nations, Hallow a war, rouse the mighty ones, let them draw near, come up, all the men of war!
Zephaniah 2:4For, Gaza, forsaken, shall be, and, Ashkelon, a desolation,—Ashdod! at high noon, shall they drive her forth, and, Ekron, be uprooted:
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:2-9
Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4… Read the whole commentary →