Jeremiah - 4:24



24 I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.

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Explanation and meaning of Jeremiah 4:24.

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I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.
I looked upon the mountains, and behold they trembled: and all the hills were troubled.
I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently.
I have looked to the mountains, And lo, they are trembling. And all the hills moved themselves lightly.
Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.
I watched the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills were shaken.
Vidi montes, et ecce contremiscentes (contremiscebant), et omnes colles movebantur:

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Moved lightly - "Reeled to and fro," from the violence of the earthquake.

The mountains - hills - Princes, rulers, etc., were astonished and fled.

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled,.... At the presence of God, at the tokens of his displeasure, and at his awful vengeance in the destruction of the Jews, as they are sometimes said to do, Psalm 68:8,
and all the hills moved lightly; so Kimchi's father says the word used has the signification of lightness; though Jarchi, from Menachem, explains it, they were plucked up, and thrown out of their place; and some render it, were pulled down and destroyed, so the Targum. Mountains and hills are most stable, and not easily moved, wherefore this is said, to aggravate the desolation and destruction.

mountains-- (Isaiah 5:25).
moved lightly--shook vehemently.

Trembled - He proceeds in his figurative expressions. Behold how the very mountains of Judea tremble! Moved - As easily as dust, or feathers in a whirl - wind.

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