Jeremiah 6:28 - Prayer Tents

Jerusalem Under Siege

6"Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction.H1121H1144H5756H7130H3389H8628H7782H8620H5375H4864H1021H7451H8259H6828H1419H76672I will destroy the Daughter of Zion, so beautiful and delicate.H1820H1323H6726H5116H60263Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents around her, each tending his own portion."H7462H5739H935H8628H168H5439H7462H376H30274"Prepare for battle against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! But, alas, the daylight is fading, and the shadows of evening grow long.H6942H4421H6965H5927H6672H188H3117H6437H6752H6153H51865So arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!"H6965H5927H3915H7843H7596This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Cut down the trees and build siege ramps against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.H3068H6635H559H3772H6097H8210H5550H3389H5892H6485H6233H71307As a well pours out its water, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; her sickness and wounds are ever before me.H953H6979H4325H6979H7451H2555H7701H8085H6440H8548H2483H43478Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it."H3256H3389H5315H3363H7760H8077H776H34279This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine; pass your hand over the branches again, like one gathering grapes."H559H3068H6635H5953H5953H7611H3478H1612H7725H3027H1219H555210To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the LORD is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.H1696H5749H8085H241H6189H3201H7181H1697H3068H2781H265411But I am full of the wrath of the LORD, and I cannot hold it in. "Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years.H4392H2534H3068H3811H3557H8210H5768H2351H5475H970H3162H376H802H3920H2205H4390H311712Their houses will be turned over to others, together with their fields and their wives, when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land," declares the LORD.H1004H5437H312H7704H802H3162H5186H3027H3427H776H5002H306813"From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.H6996H1419H1214H1215H5030H3548H6213H826714They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace.H7495H7667H1323H5971H7043H559H7965H7965H796515Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them," says the LORD.H3001H6213H8441H1571H954H954H1571H3045H3637H5307H5307H6256H6485H3782H559H306816This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.'H559H3068H5975H1870H7200H7592H5769H5410H2896H1870H3212H4672H4771H5315H559H321217I appointed watchmen over you and said, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But you said, 'We will not listen.'H6965H6822H7181H6963H7782H559H718118Therefore hear, O nations; observe, O witnesses, what will happen to them.H8085H1471H3045H571219Hear, O earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.H8085H776H935H7451H5971H6529H4284H7181H1697H8451H398820What do I care about incense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please me."H935H3828H7614H2896H7070H4801H776H5930H7522H2077H614921Therefore this is what the LORD says: "I will put obstacles before this people. Fathers and sons alike will stumble over them; neighbors and friends will perish."H559H3068H5414H4383H5971H1H1121H3162H3782H7934H7453H622This is what the LORD says: "Look, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is being stirred up from the ends of the earth.H559H3068H5971H935H6828H776H1419H1471H5782H3411H77623They are armed with bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation to attack you, O Daughter of Zion."H2388H7198H3591H394H7355H6963H1993H3220H7392H5483H6186H376H4421H1323H672624We have heard reports about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.H8085H8089H3027H7503H6869H2388H2427H320525Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side.H3318H7704H3212H1870H2719H341H4032H543926O my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.H1323H5971H2296H8242H6428H665H6213H60H3173H8563H4553H7703H6597H93527"I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.H5414H969H4013H5971H3045H974H187028They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.H5493H5637H1980H7400H5178H1270H784329The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.H4647H2787H5777H8552H800H784H6884H6884H7723H7451H542330They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them."H3988H3701H7121H3068H3988