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Jeremiah 6
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Jerusalem Is Surrounded by Enemies

6People of Benjamin, run for safety! Escape from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa and build a signal fire in Beth Haccherem. Disaster and destruction are about to come from the north.H1121H1144H5756H7130H3389H8628H7782H8620H5375H4864H1021H7451H8259H6828H1419H7667
2The city of Zion is beautiful, but it will be destroyed;H1820H1323H6726H5116H6026
3kings will camp there with their armies. They will pitch their tents around the city, and each of them will camp wherever they want.H7462H5739H935H8628H168H5439H7462H376H3027
4They will say, "Prepare to attack Jerusalem! Get ready! We'll attack at noon!" But then they will say, "It's too late, the day is almost over, and the evening shadows are growing long.H6942H4421H6965H5927H6672H188H3117H6437H6752H6153H5186
5We'll attack by night; we'll destroy the city's fortresses."H6965H5927H3915H7843H759
6The LORD Almighty has ordered these kings to cut down trees and build mounds in order to besiege Jerusalem. He has said, "I will punish this city because it is full of oppression.H3068H6635H559H3772H6097H8210H5550H3389H5892H6485H6233H7130
7As a well keeps its water fresh, so Jerusalem keeps its evil fresh. I hear violence and destruction in the city; sickness and wounds are all I see.H953H6979H4325H6979H7451H2555H7701H8085H6440H8548H2483H4347
8People of Jerusalem, let these troubles be a warning to you, or else I will abandon you; I will turn your city into a desert, a place where no one lives."H3256H3389H5315H3363H7760H8077H776H3427

Rebellious Israel

9The LORD Almighty said to me, "Israel will be stripped clean like a vineyard from which every grape has been picked. So you must rescue everyone you can while there is still time."H559H3068H6635H5953H5953H7611H3478H1612H7725H3027H1219H5552
10I answered, "Who would listen to me if I spoke to them and warned them? They are stubborn and refuse to listen to your message; they laugh at what you tell me to say.H1696H5749H8085H241H6189H3201H7181H1697H3068H2781H2654
11Your anger against them burns in me too, LORD, and I can't hold it in any longer." Then the LORD said to me, "Pour out my anger on the children in the streets and on the gatherings of the young people. Husbands and wives will be taken away, and even the very old will not be spared.H4392H2534H3068H3811H3557H8210H5768H2351H5475H970H3162H376H802H3920H2205H4390H3117
12Their houses will be given to others, and so will their fields and their wives. I am going to punish the people of this land.H1004H5437H312H7704H802H3162H5186H3027H3427H776H5002H3068
13Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly; even prophets and priests cheat the people.H6996H1419H1214H1215H5030H3548H6213H8267
14They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they say, when all is not well.H7495H7667H1323H5971H7043H559H7965H7965H7965
15Were they ashamed because they did these disgusting things? No, they were not at all ashamed; they don't even know how to blush. And so they will fall as others have fallen; when I punish them, that will be the end of them. I, the LORD, have spoken."H3001H6213H8441H1571H954H954H1571H3045H3637H5307H5307H6256H6485H3782H559H3068

Israel Rejects God’s Way

16The LORD said to his people, "Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths and where the best road is. Walk in it, and you will live in peace." But they said, "No, we will not!"H559H3068H5975H1870H7200H7592H5769H5410H2896H1870H3212H4672H4771H5315H559H3212
17Then the LORD appointed sentries to listen for the trumpet's warning. But they said, "We will not listen."H6965H6822H7181H6963H7782H559H7181
18So the LORD said, "Listen, you nations, and learn what is going to happen to my people.H8085H1471H3045H5712
19Listen, earth! As punishment for all their schemes I am bringing ruin on these people, because they have rejected my teaching and have not obeyed my words.H8085H776H935H7451H5971H6529H4284H7181H1697H8451H3988
20What do I care about the incense they bring me from Sheba, or the spices from a distant land? I will not accept their offerings or be pleased with their sacrifices.H935H3828H7614H2896H7070H4801H776H5930H7522H2077H6149
21And so I will make these people stumble and fall. Parents and children will die, and so will friends and neighbors."H559H3068H5414H4383H5971H1H1121H3162H3782H7934H7453H6

Invasion from the North

22The LORD says, "People are coming from a country in the north; a mighty nation far away is preparing for war.H559H3068H5971H935H6828H776H1419H1471H5782H3411H776
23They have taken up their bows and swords; they are cruel and merciless. They sound like the roaring sea, as they ride their horses. They are ready for battle against Jerusalem."H2388H7198H3591H394H7355H6963H1993H3220H7392H5483H6186H376H4421H1323H6726
24"We have heard the news," say the people of Jerusalem, "and our hands hang limp; we are seized by anguish and pain like a woman in labor.H8085H8089H3027H7503H6869H2388H2427H3205
25We don't dare go to the countryside or walk on the roads, because our enemies are armed and terror is all around us."H3318H7704H3212H1870H2719H341H4032H5439
26The LORD says to his people, "Put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter tears as you would for an only child, because the one who comes to destroy you will suddenly attack.H1323H5971H2296H8242H6428H665H6213H60H3173H8563H4553H7703H6597H935
27Jeremiah, test my people, as you would test metal, and find out what they are like.H5414H969H4013H5971H3045H974H1870
28They are all stubborn rebels, hard as bronze and iron. They are all corrupt, going around and spreading gossip.H5493H5637H1980H7400H5178H1270H7843
29The furnace burns fiercely, but the waste metals do not melt and run off. It is useless to go on refining my people, because those who are evil are not taken away.H4647H2787H5777H8552H800H784H6884H6884H7723H7451H5423
30They will be called worthless dross, because I, the LORD, have rejected them."H3988H3701H7121H3068H3988


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