Jeremiah Chapter 30 verse 5 Holy Bible
For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
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This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.
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for thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, there is fear, and no peace.
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For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
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For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
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Surely thus said Jehovah: A voice of trembling we have heard, Fear -- and there is no peace.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 5-11. - The great judgment of Israel's deliverance. It is nothing less than the "day of Jehovah" which the prophet sees in spirit - a day which is "great" (ver. 7; comp. Joel 2:11; Zephaniah 1:14) and terrible (vers. 5, 6; comp. Amos 5:18, 20; Isaiah 13:6; Joel 2:1, 11) for Israel, a day of "trouble" (ver. 7), but for his enemies of destruction. Verse 5. - A voice of trembling; rather, a sound of trembling, a sound causing men to tremble; doubtless it is "the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war" (Jeremiah 4:19). Of fear, and not of peace; rather, there is fear, and no peace. "Peace," as usual, means the harmony of a well ordered, secure, and peaceful community. Literally, it is wholeness; its opposite is "breaking," i.e. outward ruin and inward anguish.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5, 6) Thus saith the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling . . .--There is a strange mingling of the divine and human elements in these words. The prophet speaks with the sense that the words are not his own, and yet what he utters is, at first, the expression of his own horror and astonishment at the vision of woe that is opening before his eyes. He sees, as it were, the famine-stricken people, their faces gathering blackness, the strong men giving way to a woman's anguish, wailing with their hands on their loins. In horror rather than in scorn, he asks the question, What means all this? Are these men in the pangs of childbirth? (Comp. Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 6:24; Jeremiah 13:21.) In Lamentations 2:19-22 we have a fuller picture of a like scene. By some commentators the three verses (5-7) are referred to the alarm caused in Babylon by the advance of Cyrus, and "that day" is the day of his capture of the city, but there seems no sufficient reason for such an interpretation.
