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Jeremiah 6
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The Enemy Besieges Jerusalem

6"Flee to safety, you people of Benjamin, leave Jerusalem. Sound the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal over Beth-haccerem! For calamity and terrible destruction are turning toward you from the north.H1121H1144H5756H7130H3389H8628H7782H8620H5375H4864H1021H7451H8259H6828H1419H7667
2I'll destroy the lovely and delicate Daughter of Zion.H1820H1323H6726H5116H6026
3"Shepherds and their flocks will come against her. They'll pitch their tents all around her, and every one will tend his flock in his own place.H7462H5739H935H8628H168H5439H7462H376H3027
4Prepare for war against her. Get ready, let's attack at noon! How terrible for us that the day is coming to an end, and that the evening shadows are lengthening.H6942H4421H6965H5927H6672H188H3117H6437H6752H6153H5186
5Get ready, let's attack at night, and destroy her fortresses."H6965H5927H3915H7843H759

Instructions for the Attackers

6For this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: "Cut down trees and set up siege works against Jerusalem. It is the city to be judged, and there is oppression throughout the entire city.H3068H6635H559H3772H6097H8210H5550H3389H5892H6485H6233H7130
7As a well keeps its waters fresh, so the city keeps her wickedness fresh. Violence and destruction are heard in her, sickness and wounds are always before me.H953H6979H4325H6979H7451H2555H7701H8085H6440H8548H2483H4347
8"Be warned, Jerusalem, or I'll be alienated from you. I'll make you desolate, a land not inhabited."H3256H3389H5315H3363H7760H8077H776H3427
9This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: "Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as they would the vine. Pass your hand over them like grape gatherers over the branches.H559H3068H6635H5953H5953H7611H3478H1612H7725H3027H1219H5552
10To whom shall I speak and give a warning so they'll listen?Look, their ears are closed, and they cannot hear. Look, the word of the Lord is contemptible to them; they don't delight in it.H1696H5749H8085H241H6189H3201H7181H1697H3068H2781H2654
11I'm full of the wrath of the Lord, and I'm tired of holding it back. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the groups of young men gathered together. Indeed, both husband and wife will be caught in it, the old and the very old.H4392H2534H3068H3811H3557H8210H5768H2351H5475H970H3162H376H802H3920H2205H4390H3117
12"Their houses will be turned over to others?their fields and wives together?when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land," declares the Lord.H1004H5437H312H7704H802H3162H5186H3027H3427H776H5002H3068
13Indeed, from the least important to the most important, they're all greedy for dishonest gain. From prophet to priest, they all act deceitfully.H6996H1419H1214H1215H5030H3548H6213H8267
14They treated my people's wound superficially, telling them, 'Peace, peace,' but there is no peace.H7495H7667H1323H5971H7043H559H7965H7965H7965
15Were they ashamed because they did what was repugnant to God?They were not ashamed at all?they don't even know how to blush! Therefore they'll fall with those who fall. When I punish them, they'll be brought down," says the Lord.H3001H6213H8441H1571H954H954H1571H3045H3637H5307H5307H6256H6485H3782H559H3068

Israel Refuses to Repent

16This is what the Lord says: "Stand beside the roads and watch. Ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is. Walk in it and find rest for yourselves. But they said, 'We won't walk in it!'H559H3068H5975H1870H7200H7592H5769H5410H2896H1870H3212H4672H4771H5315H559H3212
17I appointed watchmen over you. Listen for the sound of the trumpet. But they said, 'We won't listen!'H6965H6822H7181H6963H7782H559H7181
18Therefore, hear, nations, and know, congregation, what will happen to them.H8085H1471H3045H5712
19Listen, earth! I'm about to bring calamity on this people, on the fruit of their plans, because they didn't listen to my words and they rejected my instruction.H8085H776H935H7451H5971H6529H4284H7181H1697H8451H3988
20What good is frankincense that comes from Sheba to me, or sweet cane from a distant country?Your burnt offerings aren't acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me."H935H3828H7614H2896H7070H4801H776H5930H7522H2077H6149
21Therefore, this is what the Lord says: "I'm about to put stumbling blocks in front of this people, and fathers and sons will stumble over them together. The neighbor and his friends will perish."H559H3068H5414H4383H5971H1H1121H3162H3782H7934H7453H6

The Invaders from the North

22This is what the Lord says: "Look, people are coming from a northern country. A great nation is stirring from the ends of the earth.H559H3068H5971H935H6828H776H1419H1471H5782H3411H776
23They grab bow and spear; they're cruel and show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea as they ride on horses, deployed like men ready for battle against you, daughter of Zion."H2388H7198H3591H394H7355H6963H1993H3220H7392H5483H6186H376H4421H1323H6726
24We have heard the news about it, and our hands are limp. Distress has seized us like a woman in labor.H8085H8089H3027H7503H6869H2388H2427H3205
25Don't go out into the field, and don't travel on the road, because the enemy has a sword, and terror is on every side.H3318H7704H3212H1870H2719H341H4032H5439
26Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as one mourns at the death of an only son. For the destroyer will come on us suddenly.H1323H5971H2296H8242H6428H665H6213H60H3173H8563H4553H7703H6597H935

People Rejected by the Lord

27"I've made you an assayer of my people, as well as a fortress. You know how to test their way."H5414H969H4013H5971H3045H974H1870
28All of them are very rebellious, going around as slanderers. They're bronze and iron, and all of them are corrupt.H5493H5637H1980H7400H5178H1270H7843
29The bellows blow fiercely to consume the lead with the fire. The assayer keeps on refining, but the impurities aren't separated out.H4647H2787H5777H8552H800H784H6884H6884H7723H7451H5423
30They're called reject silver, because the Lord has rejected them.H3988H3701H7121H3068H3988


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