Jeremiah 4:6

Set up the standard toward Zion,.... Not on the tower of Zion, as Kimchi interprets it; but on some high place, pointing to Zion, and directing the country people to flee thither for safety; for the…

The standard - A flag or signal, to which the people were to rally.Retire, stay not - Rather, gather your goods together: linger not; “for I” (emphatic, Yahweh) am bringing at this very time etc.

God's usual method is to warn before he wounds. In these verses, accordingly, God gives notice to the Jews of the general desolation that would shortly be brought upon them by a foreign invasion. This…

Set up a standard to guide those who were seeking to attain the shelter of the walls of Jerusalem.

flee rather, make ( your households) flee. Cp. mg. in Isa 10:31; and Exo 9:19 ("hasten in").

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