Verse 4
Jeremiah 6:4
World English Bible, British Edition
4
“Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us!
For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
Original Language Text
hebrew
קַדְּשׁ֤וּ עָלֶ֨י/הָ֙ מִלְחָמָ֔ה ק֖וּמוּ וְ/נַעֲלֶ֣ה בַֽ/צָּהֳרָ֑יִם א֥וֹי לָ֨/נוּ֙ כִּי פָנָ֣ה הַ/יּ֔וֹם כִּ֥י יִנָּט֖וּ צִלְלֵי עָֽרֶב
English Translation
Sanctify yourselves for battle; rise and let us go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day has turned, for the shadows of evening are stretched out.
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Chapter 6 Context
1
“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in Teko...
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2
I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.
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3
Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents
against her all around. Th...
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4
“Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us!
For the day declines, for the shado...
5
Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”
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6
For the LORD of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against
Jerusalem. This is the cit...
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7
As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence
and destruction is heard in...
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8
Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make
you a desolation, an uninh...
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9
The LORD of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant
of Israel like a vine. Turn again y...
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10
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold,
their ear is uncircumcised, and they...
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11
Therefore I am full of the LORD’s wrath. I am weary with holding it
in.
“Pour it out on the children...
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12
Their houses will be turned to others,
their fields and their wives together;
for I will stretch out...
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13
“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given
to covetousness.
From the prophet ev...
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14
They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially,
saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no...
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15
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
No, they were not at all ashamed, neither cou...
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16
The LORD says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old
paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and w...
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17
I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not l...
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18
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is amongst
them.
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19
Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit
of their thoughts, because the...
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20
To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet
cane from a far country? Your...
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21
Therefore The LORD says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks
before this people. The fathers and th...
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22
The LORD says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great
nation will be stirred up fro...
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23
They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy.
Their voice roars like the sea,...
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24
We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has
taken hold of us, and pains as of a w...
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25
Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the
enemy and terror are on every s...
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26
Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in
ashes! Mourn, as for an only so...
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27
“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress amongst my
people, that you may know and try thei...
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28
They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze
and iron. All of them deal co...
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29
The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain
they go on refining, for the wi...
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30
Men will call them rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
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