jps - Jeremiah:4-6

jps@Jeremiah:4:1 @ If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, yea, return unto Me; and if thou wilt put away thy detestable things out of My sight, and wilt not waver;

jps@Jeremiah:4:2 @ And wilt swear: 'As the LORD liveth' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; then shall the nations bless themselves by Him, and in Him shall they glory.

jps@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up for you a fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

jps@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest My fury go forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

jps@Jeremiah:4:5 @ Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem, and say: 'Blow ye the horn in the land'; cry aloud and say: 'Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.'

jps@Jeremiah:4:6 @ Set up a standard toward Zion; put yourselves under covert, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

jps@Jeremiah:4:7 @ A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations is set out, gone forth from his place; to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

jps@Jeremiah:4:8 @ For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

jps@Jeremiah:4:9 @ And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall fail, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

jps@Jeremiah:4:10 @ Then said I: 'Ah, Lord GOD! surely Thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying: Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.'

jps@Jeremiah:4:11 @ At that time shall it be said of this people and of Jerusalem; A hot wind of the high hills in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to fan, nor to cleanse;

jps@Jeremiah:4:12 @ A wind too strong for this shall come for Me; now will I also utter judgments against them.

jps@Jeremiah:4:13 @ Behold, he cometh up as clouds, and his chariots are as the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles.--'Woe unto us! for we are undone.'--

jps@Jeremiah:4:14 @ O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy baleful thoughts lodge within thee?

jps@Jeremiah:4:15 @ For hark! one declareth from Dan, and announceth calamity from the hills of Ephraim:

jps@Jeremiah:4:16 @ 'Make ye mention to the nations: Behold--publish concerning Jerusalem--watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.'

jps@Jeremiah:4:17 @ As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against Me, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:4:18 @ Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.

jps@Jeremiah:4:19 @ My bowels, my bowels! I writhe in pain! The chambers of my heart! My heart moaneth within me! I cannot hold my peace! because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the horn, the alarm of war.

jps@Jeremiah:4:20 @ Destruction followeth upon destruction, for the whole land is spoiled; suddenly are my tents spoiled, my curtains in a moment.

jps@Jeremiah:4:21 @ How long shall I see the standard, shall I hear the sound of the horn?

jps@Jeremiah:4:22 @ For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

jps@Jeremiah:4:23 @ I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

jps@Jeremiah:4:24 @ I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.

jps@Jeremiah:4:25 @ I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

jps@Jeremiah:4:26 @ I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and before His fierce anger.

jps@Jeremiah:4:27 @ For thus saith the LORD: The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

jps@Jeremiah:4:28 @ For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

jps@Jeremiah:4:29 @ For the noise of the horsemen and bowmen the whole city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks; every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

jps@Jeremiah:4:30 @ And thou, that art spoiled, what doest thou, that thou clothest thyself with scarlet, that thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, that thou enlargest thine eyes with paint? In vain dost thou make thyself fair; thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.

jps@Jeremiah:4:31 @ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands: 'Woe is me, now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.'

jps@Jeremiah:5:1 @ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.

jps@Jeremiah:5:2 @ And though they say: 'As the LORD liveth', surely they swear falsely.

jps@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they were not affected; Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

jps@Jeremiah:5:4 @ And I said: 'Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the ordinance of their God;

jps@Jeremiah:5:5 @ I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of the LORD, and the ordinance of their God.' But these had altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bands.

jps@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them, a wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, a leopard watcheth over their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased.

jps@Jeremiah:5:7 @ Wherefore should I pardon thee? The children have forsaken Me, and sworn by no-gods; and when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.

jps@Jeremiah:5:8 @ They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

jps@Jeremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

jps@Jeremiah:5:10 @ Go ye up into her rows, and destroy, but make not a full end; take away her shoots; for they are not the LORD'S.

jps@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against Me, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine;

jps@Jeremiah:5:13 @ And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them; thus be it done unto them.'

jps@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Wherefore thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts: Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make My words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

jps@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD; it is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

jps@Jeremiah:5:16 @ Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

jps@Jeremiah:5:17 @ And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall batter thy fortified cities, wherein thou trusteth, with the sword.

jps@Jeremiah:5:18 @ But even in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

jps@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say: 'Wherefore hath the LORD our God done all these things unto us?' then shalt Thou say unto them: 'Like as ye have forsaken Me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'

jps@Jeremiah:5:20 @ Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and announce it in Judah, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:5:21 @ Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, that have eyes, and see not, that have ears, and hear not:

jps@Jeremiah:5:22 @ Fear ye not Me? saith the LORD; Will ye not tremble at My presence? Who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it cannot pass; and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

jps@Jeremiah:5:23 @ But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted, and gone.

jps@Jeremiah:5:24 @ Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; that keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'

jps@Jeremiah:5:25 @ Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.

jps@Jeremiah:5:26 @ For among My people are found wicked men; they pry, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

jps@Jeremiah:5:27 @ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;

jps@Jeremiah:5:28 @ They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

jps@Jeremiah:5:29 @ Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

jps@Jeremiah:5:30 @ An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

jps@Jeremiah:5:31 @ The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood, and the priests bear rule at their beck; and My people love to have it so; What then will ye do in the end thereof?

jps@Jeremiah:6:1 @ Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin, away from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal on Beth-cherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.

jps@Jeremiah:6:2 @ The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.

jps@Jeremiah:6:3 @ Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.

jps@Jeremiah:6:4 @ 'Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon!' 'Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out!'

jps@Jeremiah:6:5 @ 'Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.'

jps@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.

jps@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a cistern welleth with her waters, so she welleth with her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before Me continually is sickness and wounds.

jps@Jeremiah:6:8 @ Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

jps@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again thy hand as a grape- gatherer upon the shoots.

jps@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is dull, and they cannot attend; behold, the word of the LORD is become unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it.

jps@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the babes in the street, 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.

jps@Jeremiah:6:12 @ And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out My hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:6:13 @ For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is greedy for gain; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

jps@Jeremiah:6:14 @ They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace.

jps@Jeremiah:6:15 @ They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination; yea, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they how to blush; therefore they shall fall among them that fall, at the time that I punish them they shall stumble, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:6:16 @ 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.'

jps@Jeremiah:6:17 @ And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.'

jps@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is against them.

jps@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth: Behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not attended unto My words, and as for My teaching, they have rejected it.

jps@Jeremiah:6:20 @ To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country? Your burnt- offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me.

jps@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them, the neighbour and his friend, and they shall perish.

jps@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus saith the LORD: Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be roused from the uttermost parts of the earth.

jps@Jeremiah:6:23 @ They lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel, and have no compassion; their voice is like the roaring sea, and they ride upon horses; set in array, as a man for war, against thee, O daughter of Zion.

jps@Jeremiah:6:24 @ 'We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble, anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.'

jps@Jeremiah:6:25 @ Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, and terror on every side.

jps@Jeremiah:6:26 @ 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.

jps@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have made thee a tower and a fortress among My people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

jps@Jeremiah:6:28 @ They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly.

jps@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire; in vain doth the founder refine, for the wicked are not separated.

jps@Jeremiah:6:30 @ Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

jps@Jeremiah:7:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying: