14Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
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 Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-19)Here, I. God gives Jeremiah, in vision, a view of the principal errand he was to go upon, which was to foretel the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, for their sins, especially their idolatry. This was at first represented to him in away proper to make an impression upon him, that he might have it upon his heart in all his dealings with this people. 1. He intimates to him that th…
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