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Jeremiah 6
Destruction Of Jerusalem Impending
From the midst of Jerusalem!
Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa
And raise a signal over Beth-haccerem;
For evil looks down from the north,
And a great destruction.
They will pitch their tents around her,
They will pasture each in his place.
Arise, and let us attack at noon.
Woe to us, for the day declines,
For the shadows of the evening lengthen!
And destroy her palaces!”
6For thus says the LORD of hosts,
And cast up a siege against Jerusalem.
This is the city to be punished,
In whose midst there is only oppression.
So she keeps fresh her wickedness.
Violence and destruction are heard in her;
Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
Or I shall be alienated from you,
And make you a desolation,
A land not inhabited.”
“They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel;
Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer
Over the branches.”
That they may hear?
Behold, their ears are closed
And they cannot listen.
Behold, the word of the LORD has become a reproach to them;
They have no delight in it.
I am weary with holding it in.
“Pour it out on the children in the street
And on the gathering of young men together;
For both husband and wife shall be taken,
The aged and the very old.
Their fields and their wives together;
For I will stretch out My hand
Against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
Everyone is greedy for gain,
And from the prophet even to the priest
Everyone deals falsely.
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the LORD.
“Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths,
Where the good way is, and walk in it;
And you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not listen.’
And know, O congregation, what is among them.
The fruit of their plans,
Because they have not listened to My words,
And as for My law, they have rejected it also.
And the sweet cane from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable
And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me.”
21Therefore, thus says the LORD,
And they will stumble against them,
Fathers and sons together;
Neighbor and friend will perish.”
“Behold, a people is coming from the north land,
And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.
They are cruel and have no mercy;
Their voice roars like the sea,
And they ride on horses,
Arrayed as a man for the battle
Against you, O daughter of Zion!”
Our hands are limp.
Anguish has seized us,
Pain as of a woman in childbirth.
And do not walk on the road,
For the enemy has a sword,
Terror is on every side.
And roll in ashes;
Mourn as for an only son,
A lamentation most bitter.
For suddenly the destroyer
Will come upon us.
That you may know and assay their way.”
Going about as a talebearer.
They are bronze and iron;
They, all of them, are corrupt.
The lead is consumed by the fire;
In vain the refining goes on,
But the wicked are not separated.
Because the LORD has rejected them.