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 setting up of the standard here is not for enlisting of soldiers in order to fight, but as a sign of danger, and a direction where to flee from it:

retire ; gather yourselves together in order to flee, as the word F16 העיזו "congregate vos, sub. ad fugiendum", Vatablus; "confirmate vos ad fugiendum ", Piscator. is rendered in Isaiah 10:31 , though some render it, "be ye strengthened" F17 "Confortamini", V. L. "corroboramiui", Castalio; "agite viriliter", Munster. ; take heart, and play the man; but this does not seem so agreeable to the context:

stay not ; or, "stand not"; stand not in the place ye are in, but move from it in all haste, because of present danger:

for I will bring evil from the north ; from Babylon, as Kimchi interprets it; which lay north to the land of Israel; and so designs the captivity Judah should be brought into there:

and a great destruction or, "breach" F18 שבר "contritionem", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "confractionem", Cocceius. ; which the Babylonians should make on the inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem.