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Jeremiah 6 📜 📕 ↷
Jerusalem's Final Warning
1 TAKE courage ye children of Benjamin in the midst of Jerusalem, and in Thecua sound with the trumpet, and over Bethacarem lift up the standard: because there is evil seen from the North, and great destruction.📜💬📚
2 I have resembled the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.📜💬📚
3 To her shall Pastors come, and their flocks: they have pitched tents in her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.📜💬📚
4 Sanctify ye battle upon her: arise, and let us go up in the midday: woe unto us, because the day is declined, because the shadows of the evening are waxen longer.📜💬📚
5 Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.📜💬📚
6 Because thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her wood, cast a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city of visitation, all oppression is in the midst thereof.📜💬📚
7 As a cistern maketh cold the water thereof, so hath she made cold her malice: iniquity and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and plague always before me.📜💬📚
8 Be thou taught Jerusalem, lest perhaps my soul depart from thee, lest perhaps I make thee a desert land not habitable.📜💬📚
9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Even to one cluster shall they gather as in a vineyard the remains of Israel, turn back thy hand, as the grape gatherer to the basket.📜💬📚
10 To whom shall I speak? And whom shall I contest, that he may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they can not hear: behold the word of our Lord is become unto them as a reproach: and they will not receive it.📜💬📚
11 Therefore am I full of the fury of our Lord, I have laboured sustaining: pour out upon the little one without, and upon the counsel of the young men together: for man with woman shall be taken, the ancient with him that is full of days.📜💬📚
12 And their houses shall pass to others, their lands and wives together: because I will extend my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
13 For from the lesser even to the greater, all study avarice: and from the Prophets even to the Priest, all commit guile.📜💬📚
14 And they cured the destruction of the daughter of my people with ignominy, saying: Peace, peace: and there was not peace.📜💬📚
15 They were confounded, because they did abomination: yea rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush, for the which thing, they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation, they shall fall down, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
16 Thus saith our Lord: Stand ye upon the ways, and see, and ask of the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshing for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.📜💬📚
17 And I appointed watchmen over you. Hear ye the voice of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hear.📜💬📚
18 Therefore hear ye, o Gentiles, and thou congregation know, what great things I will do to them.📜💬📚
19 Hear o earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their cogitations: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast off my law.📜💬📚
20 To what purpose bring you me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet swelling came from a far country? Your holocausts are not acceptable, and your victims have not pleased me.📜💬📚
21 Therefore thus saith our Lord: Behold I will bring ruin upon this people, and the fathers with the children shall fall in them together, neighbour and neighbour, and they shall perish.📜💬📚
An Invasion from the North
22 Thus saith our Lord: Behold there cometh a people from the land of the North, and a great nation shall arise up from the ends of the earth.📜💬📚
23 It shall take arrow and shield: it is cruel, and will have no mercy. The voice thereof shall sound as the sea: and they shall mount upon horses, prepared as a man to battle, against thee, o daughter of Sion.📜💬📚
24 We have heard the fame thereof, our hands are dissolved: tribulation hath caught us, sorrows as a woman in travail.📜💬📚
25 Go not out of the fields, and walk not in the way: because the sword of the enemy is fear round about.📜💬📚
26 Be girded with sackcloth, o daughter of my people, and be sprinkled with ashes: make thee a bitter lamentation as the mourning of the only-begotten, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.📜💬📚
27 I have set thee a strong prover in my people: and thou shalt know, and prove their way.📜💬📚
28 All these Princes are declining, walking deceitfully, brass and iron: they are all corrupted.📜💬📚
29 The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their malices are not consumed.📜💬📚
30 Call ye them reprobate silver, because our Lord hath rejected them.📜💬📚
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