Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:5
"Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he has gone forth from his place, to make the land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. For this... read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 4:5
Declare . . . publish . . . say. Compare Jeremiah 46:14 ; Jeremiah 50:2 . Judah. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), for Judah and Benjamin. Blow ye. Hebrew text reads, "And blow ye": but Hebrew margin, and some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read without the "And". This is followed by Authorized Version and Revised Version. read more