| 6 | Jeremiah | ||
| 1 | Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looms out of the north, and great destruction. | Jerusalem surrounded by enemies. Jr.6.1-8 | |
| 2 | The comely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion. | ||
| 3 | Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place. | ||
| 4 | "Prepare war against her; up, and let us attack at noon!" "Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!" | ||
| 5 | "Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!" | ||
| 6 | For thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Hew down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city which must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her. | ||
| 7 | As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me. | ||
| 8 | Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land." | ||
| 9 | Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches." | Rebellious Israel. Jr.6.9-15 | |
| 10 | To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of Yahweh is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it. | ||
| 11 | Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the old folk and the very aged. | ||
| 12 | Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh. | ||
| 13 | "For from the least to the greatest of them, every one is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, every one deals falsely. | ||
| 14 | They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace. | ||
| 15 | Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says Yahweh. | ||
| 16 | Thus says Yahweh: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.' | Israel rejects God's way. Jr.6.16-21 | |
| 17 | I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not give heed.' | ||
| 18 | Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them. | ||
| 19 | Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. | ||
| 20 | To what purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. | ||
| 21 | Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbour and friend shall perish.' " | ||
| 22 | Thus says Yahweh: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth. | Invasion from the north. Jr.6.22-30 | |
| 23 | They lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel and have no mercy, the sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride upon horses, set in array as a man for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion!" | ||
| 24 | We have heard the report of it, our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in travail. | ||
| 25 | Go not forth into the field, nor walk on the road; for the enemy has a sword, terror is on every side. | ||
| 26 | O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us. | ||
| 27 | "I have made you an assayer and tester among my people, that you may know and assay their ways. | ||
| 28 | They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly. | ||
| 29 | The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed. | ||
| 30 | Refuse silver they are called, for Yahweh has rejected them." | ||
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