JEREMIAH 6
1 Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem: for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.
2 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
3 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.
4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7 As a well casteth forth her waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.
9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is become unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, 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.
12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
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.
14 They have healed also the hurt of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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.
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.
17 And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
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; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people: and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
23 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses; every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion.
24 We have heard the fame thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, and terror on every side.
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.
27 I have made thee a tower and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.
28 They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
30 Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Cross-references
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- 1Neh 3:14, 2Ch 11:6, Jer 6:22, Jos 18:21–28, 2Sa 14:2, Jer 4:5–6, Jdg 1:21, Jer 4:19–20
- 2Jer 4:31, Isa 1:8, Lam 2:13, Lam 2:1, Isa 3:16–17
- 3Luk 19:43, Jer 39:1–3, 2Ki 25:1–4, Nam 3:18, Jer 4:16–17, 2Ki 24:2, 2Ki 24:10–12, Jer 12:10
- 4Jer 15:8, Jol 3:9, Zep 2:4, Jer 8:20, Jer 5:10, Isa 5:26–30, Sng 2:17, Jer 51:27–28
- 5Isa 32:14, Jer 52:13, 2Ch 36:19, Jer 9:21, Zec 11:1, Amo 2:5, Psa 48:3, Jer 17:27
- 6Jer 32:24, Deu 20:19–20
- 7Jer 20:8, Ezk 7:23, Ezk 7:11, Jas 3:10–12, Isa 57:20, Mic 2:8–10, Mic 2:1–2, Ezk 22:3–12
- 8Ezk 23:18, Hos 9:12, Jer 17:23, Jer 32:33, Jer 35:13–15, Zep 3:7, Psa 50:17, Zec 11:8–9
- 9Oba 1:5–6, Jer 16:16, Jer 49:9, Rev 14:18, Jer 52:28–30
- 10Act 7:51, Jer 7:26, Jhn 7:7, Heb 11:7, Isa 53:1, Exo 6:12, Isa 28:9–13, Luk 20:19
- 11Jer 9:21, Jer 20:9, Job 32:18–19, Mic 3:8, Act 17:16, Ezk 9:6, Ezk 3:14, Jer 18:21
- 12Jer 8:10, Isa 5:25, Isa 9:21, Lam 2:4–5, Lam 5:3, Isa 9:12, Zep 1:13, Lam 2:8
- 13Jer 23:11, Jer 8:10, Mic 3:11, Mic 3:2–3, Jer 22:17, Ezk 22:25–28, Isa 57:17, Zep 3:3–4
- 14Ezk 13:10, Jer 23:17, Jer 4:10, Lam 2:14, Jer 14:13, Jer 8:11–12, Mic 2:11, 2Pe 2:18–19
- 15Jer 8:12, Mat 15:14, Jer 3:3, Php 3:19, Ezk 2:4, Jer 5:29, Isa 10:4, Hos 9:7
- 16Isa 30:21, Deu 32:7, Jer 18:15, Mat 11:28–29, Jer 7:23, Col 2:6, Isa 2:5, Jer 18:12
- 17Jer 25:4, Isa 58:1, Isa 21:11, Zec 7:11, Isa 56:10, Hab 2:1, Ezk 3:17–21, Act 20:27–31
- 18Isa 5:3, Jer 31:10, Mic 6:5, Psa 50:4–6, Deu 29:24–28, Jer 4:10
- 19Isa 1:2, Jer 17:10, Jer 8:9, Act 8:22, Jer 6:10, Hos 4:6, Jhn 12:48, Mic 6:2
- 20Isa 1:11, Mic 6:6–8, Amo 5:21–22, Psa 40:6, Isa 43:23–24, Isa 60:6, Isa 66:3, Jer 7:21–23
- 21Isa 8:14, Ezk 3:20, Jer 13:16, Isa 9:14–17, Lam 2:20–22, 1Pe 2:8, Jer 9:21–22, Jer 19:7–9
- 22Jer 10:22, Jer 50:41–43, Jer 5:15, Jer 25:9, Jer 6:1, Jer 1:14–15
- 23Isa 13:18, Jer 50:42, Luk 21:25–26, Hab 1:6–10, Jer 30:14, Isa 5:26–30, Ezk 23:22–25, Jer 5:16
- 24Jer 4:31, Jer 50:43, Jer 49:24, Isa 21:3, Isa 28:19, Jer 13:21, Jer 4:19–21, Jer 30:6
- 25Jer 49:29, Jer 14:18, Jer 20:10, Job 18:11, Psa 31:13, Isa 1:20, Jdg 5:6–7, Jer 8:14
- 26Jer 4:8, Zec 12:10, Jer 6:14, Jas 5:1, Jer 9:17–22, Jer 8:21–9:1, Ezk 7:16–18, Isa 30:13
- 27Jer 1:18, Jer 15:20, Ezk 3:8–10, Ezk 20:4, Jer 9:7, Ezk 22:2
- 28Jer 9:4, Jer 5:23, Ezk 22:18–22, Jer 18:18, Isa 1:4–5, Rev 19:2, Rev 11:18, Isa 31:6
- 291Pe 4:12, Isa 49:4, Mal 3:2–3, Jer 9:7, Pro 17:3, Hos 11:7, Ezk 24:13, Zec 13:9
- 30Hos 9:17, Isa 1:22, Psa 119:119, Isa 1:25, Jer 14:19, Jer 7:29, Ezk 22:18–19, Lam 5:22
Topics in this chapter
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Armies, Backsliders, Beacon, Bellows, Benjamin, Beth-Haccerem, Birth, Blushing, Calamus, Circumcision, Commerce, Confidence, Conscience, Covetousness, Depravity of Man, Fire, Formalism, Frankincense, Hypocrisy, Impenitence, Israel, Prophecies Concerning, Lead, Minister, Christian, Nation, Offerings, Repentance, Reprobacy, Sackcloth, Sheba, Silver, Sin, Slander, Strategy, Stumbling, Tekoah, Tent, Trumpet, Walking, War, Way, Wicked (People), Women, Word of God