Jermiah 6

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(Jer 6:1) O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
(Jer 6:2) I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate {woman}.
(Jer 6:3) The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch {their} tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
(Jer 6:4) Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
(Jer 6:5) Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
(Jer 6:6) For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this {is} the city to be visited; she {is} wholly oppression in the midst of her.
(Jer 6:7) As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually {is} grief and wounds.
(Jer 6:8) Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
(Jer 6:9) Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
(Jer 6:10) To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear {is} uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
(Jer 6:11) Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with {him that is} full of days.
(Jer 6:12) And their houses shall be turned unto others, {with their} fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
(Jer 6:13) For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one {is} given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
(Jer 6:14) They have healed also the hurt {of the daughter} of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when {there is} no peace.
(Jer 6:15) Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time {that} I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
(Jer 6:16) Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where {is} the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk {therein}.
(Jer 6:17) Also I set watchmen over you, {saying}, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
(Jer 6:18) Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what {is} among them.
(Jer 6:19) Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, {even} the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
(Jer 6:20) To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings {are} not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
(Jer 6:21) Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
(Jer 6:22) Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
(Jer 6:23) They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they {are} cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
(Jer 6:24) We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, {and} pain, as of a woman in travail.
(Jer 6:25) Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy {and} fear {is} on every side.
(Jer 6:26) O daughter of my people, gird {thee} with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, {as for} an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
(Jer 6:27) I have set thee {for} a tower {and} a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
(Jer 6:28) They {are} all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: {they are} brass and iron; they {are} all corrupters.
(Jer 6:29) The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
(Jer 6:30) Reprobate silver shall {men} call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
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