15 A voice is announcing from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.
15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
15 For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims trouble from Mount Ephraim.
15 What's this? A messenger from Dan? Bad news from Ephraim's hills!
15 For a voice declares from Dan And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim:
15 Your destruction has been announced from Dan and the hill country of Ephraim.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 4:15
Commentary on Jeremiah 4:5-18
(Read Jeremiah 4:5-18)
The fierce conqueror of the neighbouring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by false prophets. The approach of the enemy is described. Some attention was paid in Jerusalem to outward reformation; but it was necessary that their hearts should be washed, in the exercise of true repentance and faith, from the love and pollution of sin. When lesser calamities do not rouse sinners and reform nations, sentence will be given against them. The Lord's voice declares that misery is approaching, especially against wicked professors of the gospel; when it overtakes them, it will be plainly seen that the fruit of wickedness is bitter, and the end is fatal.