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title: Jeremiah 6
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createdAt: 2024-08-21T02:44:06.913Z
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**1 **O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

**2 **I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate *woman*.

**3 **The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch *their* tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

**4 **Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

**5 **Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

**6 **For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this *is* the city to be visited; she *is* wholly oppression in the midst of her.

**7 **As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually *is* grief and wounds.

**8 **Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

**9 **Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

**10 **To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear *is* uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

**11 **Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with *him that is* full of days.

**12 **And their houses shall be turned unto others, *with their* fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

**13 **For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one *is* given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

**14 **They have healed also the hurt *of the daughter* of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when *there is* no peace.

**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 them that fall: at the time *that* I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

**16 **Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where *is* the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk *therein*.

**17 **Also I set watchmen over you, *saying*, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

**18 **Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what *is* among them.

**19 **Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, *even* the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

**20 **To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings *are* not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

**21 **Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

**22 **Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

**23 **They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they *are* cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

**24 **We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, *and* pain, as of a woman in travail.

**25 **Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy *and* fear *is* on every side.

**26 **O daughter of my people, gird *thee* with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, *as for* an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

**27 **I have set thee *for* a tower *and* a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

**28 **They *are* all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: *they are* brass and iron; they *are* all corrupters.

**29 **The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

**30 **Reprobate silver shall *men* call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.