Jeremiah 6:25
New International Version
Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side.

New Living Translation
Don’t go out to the fields! Don’t travel on the roads! The enemy’s sword is everywhere and terrorizes us at every turn!

English Standard Version
Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

King James Bible
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

New King James Version
Do not go out into the field, Nor walk by the way. Because of the sword of the enemy, Fear is on every side.

New American Standard Bible
Do not go out into the field, And do not walk on the road; For the enemy has a sword, Terror is on every side.

NASB 1995
Do not go out into the field And do not walk on the road, For the enemy has a sword, Terror is on every side.

NASB 1977
Do not go out into the field, And do not walk on the road, For the enemy has a sword, Terror is on every side.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not go out into the field And do not walk on the road, For the enemy has a sword; Terror is on every side.

Amplified Bible
Do not go out into the field Nor walk on the road, For the enemy is armed with the sword; Terror is on every side.

Christian Standard Bible
Don’t go out to the fields; don’t walk on the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don’t go out to the fields; don’t walk on the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

American Standard Version
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, and terror, are on every side.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You shall not go out to the field, and on a road you shall not go, because of the sword of an enemy that surrounds you

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said, "Don't work in your fields or walk along the roads. It's too dangerous. The enemy is well armed

Douay-Rheims Bible
Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.

English Revised Version
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, and terror on every side.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't go into the field or walk on the road. The enemy has a sword. Terror is all around.

Good News Translation
We don't dare go to the countryside or walk on the roads, because our enemies are armed and terror is all around us."

International Standard Version
Don't go out into the field, and don't travel on the road, because the enemy has a sword, and terror is on every side.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Go not forth into the field, Nor walk by the way; For there is the sword of the enemy, And terror on every side.

Literal Standard Version
Do not go forth to the field, | And do not walk in the way, | For the enemy has a sword, | Fear [is] all around.

Majority Standard Bible
Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

New American Bible
Do not go out into the field, do not step into the street, For the enemy has a sword; terror on every side!

NET Bible
Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere."

New Revised Standard Version
Do not go out into the field, or walk on the road; for the enemy has a sword, terror is on every side.”

New Heart English Bible
Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror, are on every side."

Webster's Bible Translation
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

World English Bible
Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

Young's Literal Translation
Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear is round about.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
An Invasion from the North
24We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor. 25Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side. 26O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.…

Cross References
Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.'"

Jeremiah 20:3
The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

Jeremiah 20:4
For this is what the LORD says: 'I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.

Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the whispering of many: "Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!" All my trusted friends watch for my fall: "Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him."

Jeremiah 30:5
Yes, this is what the LORD says: "A cry of panic is heard--a cry of terror, not of peace.

Jeremiah 46:5
Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!" declares the LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

Go not.

Jeremiah 4:5
Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

Jeremiah 8:14
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 sinned against the LORD.

Jeremiah 14:18
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

the sword.

Jeremiah 4:10
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

Jeremiah 20:3,4,10
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib…

Jeremiah 49:29
Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

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Jeremiah 6
1. The enemies sent against Judah,
4. encourage themselves.
6. God sets them on work because of their sins.
9. The prophet laments the judgments of God because of their sins.
18. He proclaims God's wrath.
26. He calls the people to mourn for the judgment on their sins.














(25) The field.--i.e., the open country. To pass beyond the walls of the beleaguered city would be full of danger. The warning has its parallel in Matthew 24:17-18. In the same chapter we find also an echo of the prophet's reference to the pangs of childbirth (Matthew 24:8).

Fear is on every side.--The words are more notable than they seem. They impressed themselves on the prophet's mind, and became to him as a watchword. So, in Jeremiah 20:3, he gives them as a name (Magor-missabib) to Pashur, and apparently (as in Jeremiah 20:10) it was used as a cry of derision against himself.

Verse 25. - Go not forth into the field. The "daughter of Zion" (i.e. the personific population of Jerusalem) is cautioned against venturing outside the walls. The sword of the enemy; rather, the enemy hath a sword. Fear is on every side; Hebrew, magor missa-bib; one of Jeremiah's favorite expressions (see Jeremiah 20:3, 10; Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29; and comp. Psalm 31:13 [14].). Naturally of a timid, retiring character, the prophet cannot help feeling the anxious and alarming situation into which at the Divine command he has ventured.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

go out
תֵּֽצְאוּ֙ (tê·ṣə·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

to the fields;
הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה (haś·śā·ḏeh)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7704: Field, land

do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

walk
תֵּלֵ֑כוּ (tê·lê·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

the road.
וּבַדֶּ֖רֶךְ (ū·ḇad·de·reḵ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

For
כִּ֚י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the enemy
לְאֹיֵ֔ב (lə·’ō·yêḇ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary

has a sword;
חֶ֣רֶב (ḥe·reḇ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

terror
מָג֖וֹר (mā·ḡō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4032: Fear, terror

is on every side.”
מִסָּבִֽיב׃ (mis·sā·ḇîḇ)
Preposition-m | Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around


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