Jeremiah 6:25
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New International Version (©2011)
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 (©2007)
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 (©2001)
Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

New American Standard Bible (©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.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Don't go out to the fields; don't walk on the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

International Standard Version (©2012)
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.

NET Bible (©2006)
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."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Don't go into the field or walk on the road. The enemy has a sword. Terror is all around.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

American King James Version
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear 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.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, terror 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.

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 forth into the field, nor 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they provoke God. The sins of God's professing people make them an easy prey to their enemies. They dare not show themselves. Saints may rejoice in hope of God's mercies, though they see them only in the promise: sinners must mourn for fear of God's judgments, though they see them only in the threatenings. They are the worst of revolters, and are all corrupters. Sinners soon become tempters. They are compared to ore supposed to have good metal in it, but which proves all dross. Nothing will prevail to part between them and their sins. Reprobate silver shall they be called, useless and worthless. When warnings, corrections, rebukes, and all means of grace, leave men unrenewed, they will be left, as rejected of God, to everlasting misery. Let us pray, then, that we may be refined by the Lord, as silver is refined.

Pulpit Commentary

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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Go not forth into the field,.... Either for pleasure, or for business; to take a walk in it for the air, or to till it, plough, sow, or reap; but keep within the city and its walls, there being danger:

nor walk by the way; in the high road from Jerusalem, to any town or village near it:

for the sword of the enemy: or, "because there is a sword for the enemy" (b); or, "the enemy has a sword"; and that drawn; the enemy is in the field, and in the ways, and there is no escaping him:

and fear is on every side; all round the city, being encompassed by the Assyrian army: or, the enemy's sword "is fear on every side" (c); causes fear in all parts round the city. The Targum is,

"because the sword of the enemy kills those who are gathered round about;''

or on every side.

(b) "quoniam gladius est inimico", Munster, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius; "quia (ibi) gladius (qui) hosti", Schmidt. (c) Gataker.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

25. He addresses "the daughter of Zion" (Jer 6:23); caution to the citizens of Jerusalem not to expose themselves to the enemy by going outside of the city walls.

sword of the enemy—literally, "there is a sword to the enemy"; the enemy hath a sword.

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An Invasion from the North
…24We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 25Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. 26O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come on us. …

Judges 5:6 "In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths.
Jeremiah 14:18 If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I go into the city, I see the ravages of famine. Both prophet and priest have gone to a land they know not.'"
Jeremiah 20:3 The next day, when Pashhur released him from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD's name for you is not Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.
Jeremiah 20:4 For this is what the LORD says: 'I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, who will carry them away to Babylon or put them to the sword.
Jeremiah 20:10 I hear many whispering, "Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let's denounce him!" All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him."
Jeremiah 30:5 "This is what the LORD says: "'Cries of fear are heard-- terror, not peace.
Jeremiah 46:5 What do I see? They are terrified, they are retreating, their warriors are defeated. They flee in haste without looking back, and there is terror on every side," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 49:29 Their tents and their flocks will be taken; their shelters will be carried off with all their goods and camels. People will shout to them, 'Terror on every side!'
Lamentations 2:22 "As you summon to a feast day, so you summoned against me terrors on every side. In the day of the LORD's anger no one escaped or survived; those I cared for and reared my enemy has destroyed."