Jeremiah 6:1-12

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    Jeremiah 6:1-12

  • Jeremiah 6:1–12

    Impending Disaster for Jerusalem

    6:1   Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin,
        from the midst of Jerusalem!
      Blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
        and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem,
      for disaster looms out of the north,
        and great destruction.
    2   The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy,
        the daughter of Zion.
    3   Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her;
        they shall pitch their tents around her;
        they shall pasture, each in his place.
    4   “Prepare war against her;
        arise, and let us attack at noon!
      Woe to us, for the day declines,
        for the shadows of evening lengthen!
    5   Arise, and let us attack by night
        and destroy her palaces!”
    6   For thus says the LORD of hosts:
      “Cut down her trees;
        cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem.
      This is the city that must be punished;
        there is nothing but oppression within her.
    7   As a well keeps its water fresh,
        so she keeps fresh her evil;
      violence and destruction are heard within her;
        sickness and wounds are ever before me.
    8   Be warned, O Jerusalem,
        lest I turn from you in disgust,
      lest I make you a desolation,
        an uninhabited land.”
    9   Thus says the LORD of hosts:
      “They shall glean thoroughly as a vine
        the remnant of Israel;
      like a grape gatherer pass your hand again
        over its branches.”
    10   To whom shall I speak and give warning,
        that they may hear?
      Behold, their ears are uncircumcised,
        they cannot listen;
      behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn;
        they take no pleasure in it.
    11   Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD;
        I am weary of holding it in.
      “Pour it out upon the children in the street,
        and upon the gatherings of young men, also;
      both husband and wife shall be taken,
        the elderly and the very aged.
    12   Their houses shall be turned over to others,
        their fields and wives together,
      for I will stretch out my hand
        against the inhabitants of the land,”
          declares the LORD.