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    Jeremiah 6

    1 Flee for safety, you 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 looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.WEB — Jeremiah 6:1

    2 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.WEB — Jeremiah 6:2

    3 Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.WEB — Jeremiah 6:3

    4 Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.WEB — Jeremiah 6:4

    5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.WEB — Jeremiah 6:5

    6 For thus has Yahweh of Hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.WEB — Jeremiah 6:6

    7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.WEB — Jeremiah 6:7

    8 Be you instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.WEB — Jeremiah 6:8

    9 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.WEB — Jeremiah 6:9

    10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.WEB — Jeremiah 6:10

    11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding 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 shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.WEB — Jeremiah 6:11

    12 Their houses shall 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.WEB — Jeremiah 6:12

    13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.WEB — Jeremiah 6:13

    14 They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.WEB — Jeremiah 6:14

    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 those who fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.WEB — Jeremiah 6:15

    16 Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].WEB — Jeremiah 6:16

    17 I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen.WEB — Jeremiah 6:17

    18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.WEB — Jeremiah 6:18

    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.WEB — Jeremiah 6:19

    20 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.WEB — Jeremiah 6:20

    21 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.WEB — Jeremiah 6:21

    22 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.WEB — Jeremiah 6:22

    23 They lay hold on 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.WEB — Jeremiah 6:23

    24 We have heard the report of it; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.WEB — Jeremiah 6:24

    25 Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.WEB — Jeremiah 6:25

    26 Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.WEB — Jeremiah 6:26

    27 I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.WEB — Jeremiah 6:27

    28 They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.WEB — Jeremiah 6:28

    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.WEB — Jeremiah 6:29

    30 Refuse silver shall men them, because Yahweh has rejected them.WEB — Jeremiah 6:30

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