Read Jeremiah 6

World English Bible · 30 verses

1. ¹ “Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ “Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is filled with oppression within herself.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Yahweh of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ “For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² Yahweh says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ “I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org