¹³The word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see ^va boiling pot, facing away ^wfrom the north.” ¹⁴Then the Lord said to me, ^w“Out of the north disaster² shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.

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Footnotes

2The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jeremiah

Cross references

v Ezek. 24:3; [Ezek. 22:21]
wch. 4:6; 6:1; 10:22
w[See ver. 13 above]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The word of the Lord came to me again: “What do you see?”

“I see a pot that is boiling,” I answered. “It is tilting toward us from the north.”

The Lord said to me, “From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Again the word of the Lord came to me asking, “What do you see?”

And I replied, “I see a boiling pot, its lip tilted from the north to the south.”

Then the Lord said to me, “Disaster will be poured out from the north on all who live in the land.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then the Lord spoke to me again and asked, “What do you see now?”

And I replied, “I see a pot of boiling water, spilling from the north.”

“Yes,” the Lord said, “for terror from the north will boil out on the people of this land.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a boiling pot, and its face is from the face of the north.” Then Yahweh said to me, “From the north disaster will be unleashed on all the inhabitants of the land.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north. Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

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