| |
New International Version |   | |
 |
| |
| | Jer 6:1 | "Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction.
| |
| | Jer 6:2 | I will destroy the Daughter of Zion, so beautiful and delicate.
| |
| | Jer 6:3 | Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents around her, each tending his own portion."
| |
| | Jer 6:4 | "Prepare for battle against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! But, alas, the daylight is fading, and the shadows of evening grow long.
| |
| | Jer 6:5 | So arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!"
| |
| | Jer 6:6 | This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Cut down the trees and build siege ramps against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.
| |
| | Jer 6:7 | As a well pours out its water, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; her sickness and wounds are ever before me.
| |
| | Jer 6:8 | Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it."
| |
| | Jer 6:9 | This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine; pass your hand over the branches again, like one gathering grapes."
| |
| | Jer 6:10 | To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the LORD is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
| |
| | Jer 6:11 | But I am full of the wrath of the LORD, and I cannot hold it in. "Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years.
| |
| | Jer 6:12 | Their houses will be turned over to others, together with their fields and their wives, when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land," declares the LORD.
| |
| | Jer 6:13 | "From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.
| |
| | Jer 6:14 | They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. `Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace.
| |
| | Jer 6:15 | Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them," says the LORD.
| |
| | Jer 6:16 | This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, `We will not walk in it.'
| |
| | Jer 6:17 | I appointed watchmen over you and said, `Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But you said, `We will not listen.'
| |
| | Jer 6:18 | Therefore hear, O nations; observe, O witnesses, what will happen to them.
| |
| | Jer 6:19 | Hear, O earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.
| |
| | Jer 6:20 | What do I care about incense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please me."
| |
| | Jer 6:21 | Therefore this is what the LORD says: "I will put obstacles before this people. Fathers and sons alike will stumble over them; neighbors and friends will perish."
| |
| | Jer 6:22 | This is what the LORD says: "Look, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is being stirred up from the ends of the earth.
| |
| | Jer 6:23 | They are armed with bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation to attack you, O Daughter of Zion."
| |
| | Jer 6:24 | We have heard reports about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.
| |
| | Jer 6:25 | Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side.
| |
| | Jer 6:26 | O my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
| |
| | Jer 6:27 | "I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.
| |
| | Jer 6:28 | They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.
| |
| | Jer 6:29 | The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.
| |
| | Jer 6:30 | They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them."
| |
