Jeremiah 6 : 1 (YLT)
Strengthen yourselves, sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem, And in Tekoa blow ye a trumpet, And over Beth-Haccerem lift ye up a flame, For evil hath been seen from the north, And great destruction.
Jeremiah 6 : 2 (YLT)
The comely and the delicate one I have cut off, The daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 6 : 3 (YLT)
Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each *in his own station.
Jeremiah 6 : 4 (YLT)
Sanctify ye against her the battle, Rise, and we go up at noon. Wo to us, for turned hath the day, For stretched out are the shades of evening,
Jeremiah 6 : 5 (YLT)
`Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.`
Jeremiah 6 : 6 (YLT)
For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Cut down her wood, And pour out against Jerusalem a mount, She *is the city to be inspected, Wholly -- she is oppression in her midst.
Jeremiah 6 : 7 (YLT)
As the digging of a well, is *for its waters, So she hath digged for her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually are sickness and smiting.
Jeremiah 6 : 8 (YLT)
Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.
Jeremiah 6 : 9 (YLT)
Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They surely glean, as a vine, the remnant of Israel, Put back thy hand, as a gatherer to the baskets.
Jeremiah 6 : 10 (YLT)
To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear *is uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.
Jeremiah 6 : 11 (YLT)
And with the fury of Jehovah I have been filled, (I have been weary of containing,) To pour *it on the suckling in the street, And on the assembly of youths together, For even husband with wife are captured, An elder with one full of days,
Jeremiah 6 : 12 (YLT)
And their houses have been turned to others, Fields and wives together, For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 6 : 13 (YLT)
For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely,
Jeremiah 6 : 14 (YLT)
And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, `Peace, peace!` and there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6 : 15 (YLT)
They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah.
Jeremiah 6 : 16 (YLT)
Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where *is this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.`
Jeremiah 6 : 17 (YLT)
And I have raised up for you watchmen, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet. And they say, `We do not attend.`
Jeremiah 6 : 18 (YLT)
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O company, That which *is upon them.
Jeremiah 6 : 19 (YLT)
Hear, O earth, lo, I am bringing evil on this people, The fruit of their devices, For to My words they gave no attention, And My law -- they kick against it.
Jeremiah 6 : 20 (YLT)
Why *is this to Me? frankincense from Sheba cometh, And the sweet cane from a land afar off, Your burnt-offerings are not for acceptance, And your sacrifices have not been sweet to Me.
Jeremiah 6 : 21 (YLT)
Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I do give to this people stumbling blocks, And stumbled against them have fathers and sons together, The neighbour and his friend do perish.
Jeremiah 6 : 22 (YLT)
Thus said Jehovah: Lo, a people hath come from a north country, And a great nation is stirred up from the sides of the earth.
Jeremiah 6 : 23 (YLT)
Bow and javelin they take hold of, Fierce it *is , and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea doth sound, And on horses they ride, set in array as a man of war, Against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 6 : 24 (YLT)
`We have heard its sound, feeble have been our hands, Distress hath seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.
Jeremiah 6 : 25 (YLT)
Go not forth to the field, And in the way walk not, For a sword hath the enemy, fear *is round about.
Jeremiah 6 : 26 (YLT)
O daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.
Jeremiah 6 : 27 (YLT)
A watch-tower I have given thee, Among My people a fortress, And thou knowest, and hast tried their way.
Jeremiah 6 : 28 (YLT)
All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously -- brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.
Jeremiah 6 : 29 (YLT)
The bellows have been burnt, By fire hath the lead been consumed, In vain hath a refiner refined, And the wicked have not been drawn away.
Jeremiah 6 : 30 (YLT)
`Silver rejected,` they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!
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