Jeremiah 8:16
From Dan, was heard the snorting of his horses At the sound of the neighing of his chargers, the whole land trembled,—Yea they came in and did sat up The land and the fulness thereof, The city, and them who were dwelling therein.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
15A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare,—For a time of healing, but lo! terror.
Cross References
Judges 5:22Then, stamped hoofs of horses, With the gallopings, gallopings of his mighty steeds.
Judges 20:1Then went forth all the sons of Israel, and the assembly came together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba with the land of Gilead,—unto Yahweh at Mizpah.
Psalms 24:1To Yahweh, belongeth, The earth and the fulness thereof, The world, and they who dwell therein;
Jeremiah 4:15For a voice, declareth from Dan,—And publisheth trouble from the hill country of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 6:23Bow and javelin, shall they grasp, Cruel, is he! So they will not have compassion, Their voice, like the sea, will roar, And on horses, will they ride,—Arrayed each one, like a man for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Zion!
Jeremiah 47:3Because of the sound of the tramping of the hoofs of his chargers, Because of the rushing of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels Fathers shall not turn, to children, Because of the unnerving of their hands;
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22
Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →