Jeremiah Chapter 13 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
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BBE Jeremiah 13:20

Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?
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DARBY Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north. Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
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KJV Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
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WBT Jeremiah 13:20


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WEB Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
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YLT Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where `is' the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 20, 21. - The captivity being still (in spite of the perfect tense) a thing of the future, the prophet can seek to awaken the conscience of the careless under-shepherd by showing how serf-caused is his (or rather her) punishment. Verse 20. - Lift up your eyes. The verb is fern. sing., the pronoun (in suffix form) masc. plu, - a clear indication that the person addressed is a collective. Probably the "daughter of Zion" is intended, which, in a certain sense, might be called the "shepherd" or leader of the rest of the nation. From the north. Again this horror of the north as the source of calamity (see on Jeremiah 14).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Lift up your eyes.--The Hebrew verb is feminine and singular, the possessive pronoun masculine and plural. Assuming the reading to be correct, the irregularity may have been intended to combine the ideal personification of Jerusalem, the daughter of Zion, as the natural protectress of the other cities, with the concrete multitude of her inhabitants. The "beautiful flock" of those cities had been committed to her care, and she is now called to give an account of her stewardship.Them that come from the north.--These are, of course, as in Jeremiah 1:14 and elsewhere, the invading army of the Chaldeans, and probably also their Scythian allies.