Verse 6
Jeremiah 6:6
World English Bible, British Edition
6
For the LORD of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against
Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is filled with oppression within herself.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת כִּרְת֣וּ עֵצָ֔ה וְ/שִׁפְכ֥וּ עַל יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם סֹלְלָ֑ה הִ֚יא הָ/עִ֣יר הָפְקַ֔ד כֻּלָּ֖/הּ עֹ֥שֶׁק בְּ/קִרְבָּֽ/הּ
English Translation
For so says the LORD of Hosts: "Cut off counsel and pour out a highway upon Jerusalem; it is the city appointed, all of it is oppression in its midst."
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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...
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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...
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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