Jeremiah 6 - HEAR, O EARTH

> [!title|noicon] **Jeremiah 6** > [[Jeremiah 5|<Prev]]   [[Jeremiah 7|Next>]] [🕮 Bible Navigator](Bible%20Books%20Navigation.md) [[Jeremiah 6 FSI|Chapter notes view]] [1↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-1) 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 Beth-haccerem: for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction. ^1 [2↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-2) I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate _woman_. ^2 [3↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-3) 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. ^3 [4↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-4) Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. ^4 [5↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-5) Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. ^5 [6↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-6) ¶ For thus has 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. ^6 [7↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-7) As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually _is_ grief and wounds. ^7 [8↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-8) Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. ^8 [9↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-9) ¶ 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. ^9 [10↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-10) 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. ^10 [11↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-11) 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. ^11 [12↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-12) 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. ^12 [13↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-13) 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 deals falsely. ^13 [14↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-14) They have healed also the hurt _of_ _the_ _daughter_ of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when _there_ _is_ no peace. ^14 [15↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-15) Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, 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. ^15 [16↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-16) 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_. ^16 [17↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-17) Also I set watchmen over you, _saying_, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. ^17 [18↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-18) ¶ Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what _is_ among them. ^18 [19↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-19) 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. ^19 [20↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-20) To what purpose *does there* come 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. ^20 [21↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-21) 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 neighbor and his friend shall perish. ^21 [22↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-22) Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people come(s) from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. ^22 23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they _are_ cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. ^23 24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, _and_ pain, as of a woman in travail. ^24 [25↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-25) Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy _and_ fear _is_ on every side. ^25 [26↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-26) ¶ 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. ^26 [27↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-27) I have set thee _for_ a tower _and_ a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. ^27 [28↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-28) They _are_ all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: _they_ _are_ brass and iron; they _are_ all corrupters. ^28 [29↗](Jeremiah%206%20FSI.md#^jer6-29) The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. ^29 30 Reprobate silver shall _men_ call them, because the LORD has rejected them. ^30 Tags: #Old_Testament #Jeremiah #Gods_judgment_on_His_people