vw - Jeremiah:6-10

vw@Jeremiah:6:1 @ O children of Benjamin, seek refuge out of the midst of Jerusalem. Blow the shofar in Tekoa, and set up a signal-fire in Beth-haccerem; for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.

vw@Jeremiah:6:2 @ I will destroy the daughter of Zion, being delicate in her dwelling place.

vw@Jeremiah:6:3 @ The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch tents against her all around; they shall feed each one in his place.

vw@Jeremiah:6:4 @ Prepare war against her; arise and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

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

vw@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus has Jehovah of Hosts said, Cut down trees and cast a mound against Jerusalem! This is the city to be punished; she is full of oppression in her midst.

vw@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a fountain keeps fresh its waters, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and devastation is heard in her; before Me continually are sickness and wounds.

vw@Jeremiah:6:8 @ O Jerusalem, be instructed, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.

vw@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine; as a grape gatherer, put your hand back to the branches.

vw@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot give heed. Behold, the Word of Jehovah is a reproach to them; they have no delight in it.

vw@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the fury of Jehovah; I am weary with holding it in; I will pour it out on the children outside, and on the group of young men together. For even the husband shall be taken along with the wife, the aged who is full of days.

vw@Jeremiah:6:12 @ And their houses shall be turned over to others, together with their fields and wives; for I will stretch out My hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:6:13 @ For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them profits from unjust gain; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

vw@Jeremiah:6:14 @ They have also healed the ruin of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

vw@Jeremiah:6:15 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall. At the time that I punish them they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus says Jehovah, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is, and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.

vw@Jeremiah:6:17 @ Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the shofar. But they said, We will not listen.

vw@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is coming upon them.

vw@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evil on this people, the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not heeded My Words, nor My Law, but rejected it.

vw@Jeremiah:6:20 @ For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not pleasing, nor are your sacrifices sweet to Me.

vw@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble on them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

vw@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus says Jehovah, Behold, a people comes from the land of the north, and a great nation shall be aroused from the extremities of the earth.

vw@Jeremiah:6:23 @ They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, set in array against you as men of war, O daughter of Zion.

vw@Jeremiah:6:24 @ We have heard the rumor of it; our hands become feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.

vw@Jeremiah:6:25 @ Do not go out into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear are on every side.

vw@Jeremiah:6:26 @ O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and wallow in ashes; make mourning for yourself, as for an only son, most bitter wailing; for the destruction shall suddenly come upon us.

vw@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have set you up as an inspector, and a fortress among My people, that you may know and examine their way.

vw@Jeremiah:6:28 @ They all stubbornly rebel, walking in slanders; they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.

vw@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The bellows are scorched, the lead is consumed by the fire; the refiner melts in vain; for the wicked are not drawn off.

vw@Jeremiah:6:30 @ Rejected silver they call them, because Jehovah has rejected them.

vw@Jeremiah:7:1 @ The Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

vw@Jeremiah:7:2 @ Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah, and proclaim there this Word, and say, Hear the Word of Jehovah, all Judah, who enter in at these gates to bow down to Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:7:3 @ Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Make your ways and your doings good, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

vw@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah, This is the temple of Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:7:5 @ For if you thoroughly make your ways and your doings good; if you work to execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

vw@Jeremiah:7:6 @ if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;

vw@Jeremiah:7:7 @ then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.

vw@Jeremiah:7:8 @ Behold, you trust in lying words that are of no benefit.

vw@Jeremiah:7:9 @ Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know;

vw@Jeremiah:7:10 @ and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered to do all those abominations?

vw@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:7:12 @ But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel.

vw@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because you have done all these works, says Jehovah, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear; and I called you, but you did not answer;

vw@Jeremiah:7:14 @ therefore I will do to this house, which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

vw@Jeremiah:7:15 @ And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, the whole seed of Ephraim.

vw@Jeremiah:7:16 @ Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry nor prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you.

vw@Jeremiah:7:17 @ Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

vw@Jeremiah:7:18 @ The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger.

vw@Jeremiah:7:19 @ Do they provoke Me to anger? says Jehovah. Is it not themselves, to the shame of their own faces.

vw@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, My anger and My fury shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

vw@Jeremiah:7:21 @ Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Snatch away your burnt offerings from your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

vw@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.

vw@Jeremiah:7:23 @ But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you.

vw@Jeremiah:7:24 @ But they did not listen, nor extend their ear, but walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

vw@Jeremiah:7:25 @ Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.

vw@Jeremiah:7:26 @ Yet they did not listen to Me, nor extend their ear, but hardened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

vw@Jeremiah:7:27 @ Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; you shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.

vw@Jeremiah:7:28 @ But you shall say to them, This is a nation which does not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, nor receives instruction; truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

vw@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off your hair and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights. For Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.

vw@Jeremiah:7:30 @ For the sons of Judah have done evil in My eyes, says Jehovah. They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, in order to defile it.

vw@Jeremiah:7:31 @ They have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command them, nor did it even come into My heart.

vw@Jeremiah:7:32 @ Therefore behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they shall bury in Tophet, until there is no more room.

vw@Jeremiah:7:33 @ And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.

vw@Jeremiah:7:34 @ Then I will cause the voice of gladness to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.

vw@Jeremiah:8:1 @ At that time, says Jehovah, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.

vw@Jeremiah:8:2 @ And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and to which they have bowed down. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.

vw@Jeremiah:8:3 @ And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Jehovah of Hosts.

vw@Jeremiah:8:4 @ Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah, Shall they fall and not arise? Shall he turn away and not return?

vw@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a continual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

vw@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I listened and heard, but they did not speak right; no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, as a horse rushes into the battle.

vw@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:8:8 @ How can you say, We are wise, and the Law of Jehovah is with us? Lo, certainly the lying pen of the scribes has written falsehood.

vw@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed, and are captured. Lo, they have rejected the Word of Jehovah; so what wisdom is in them?

vw@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them, for everyone from the least even to the greatest profits from unjust gain. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

vw@Jeremiah:8:11 @ For they have healed the ruin of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

vw@Jeremiah:8:12 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abominations? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; in the time of their punishment they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:8:13 @ I will utterly consume them, says Jehovah; there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; I give them to those who pass through.

vw@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has put us to silence, and has given us bitter water to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:8:15 @ We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, but behold, terror!

vw@Jeremiah:8:16 @ The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan; the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his valiant ones. For they have come, and devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those who live in it.

vw@Jeremiah:8:17 @ For, behold, I will send serpents and vipers among you, which cannot be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:8:18 @ I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

vw@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land. Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked Me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?

vw@Jeremiah:8:20 @ The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

vw@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the ruin of the daughter of my people I am broken; I am in gloom; horror has seized me.

vw@Jeremiah:8:22 @ Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of my people not come?

vw@Jeremiah:9:1 @ Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

vw@Jeremiah:9:2 @ Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

vw@Jeremiah:9:3 @ And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:9:4 @ Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant and assail his neighbor, and will walk with slanderers.

vw@Jeremiah:9:5 @ And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

vw@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Behold, I will refine them and try them; for how else shall I deal with the daughter of My people?

vw@Jeremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

vw@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these things? says Jehovah; shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

vw@Jeremiah:9:10 @ I will take up a weeping and a wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness; because they are burned up, so that no one can pass through them; nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

vw@Jeremiah:9:11 @ And I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

vw@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who is the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish and burn up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

vw@Jeremiah:9:13 @ And Jehovah says, Because they have forsaken My Law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, and have not walked in it,

vw@Jeremiah:9:14 @ but they have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.

vw@Jeremiah:9:15 @ Therefore thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and make them drink bitter water.

vw@Jeremiah:9:16 @ I will also scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.

vw@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Consider carefully, and call for those who lament, that they may come. And send for the wise women, that they may come;

vw@Jeremiah:9:18 @ and let them make haste and take up a lamentation for us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and waters flow from our eyelids.

vw@Jeremiah:9:19 @ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion. How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because they have thrown down our tents.

vw@Jeremiah:9:20 @ Yet hear the Word of Jehovah, O women, and let your ear receive the Word of His mouth, and teach your daughters a mourning song, and each one teach her neighbor a lamentation.

vw@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.

vw@Jeremiah:9:22 @ Speak, Thus says Jehovah, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the fallen grain after the reaper; and no one shall gather them.

vw@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus says Jehovah, Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches;

vw@Jeremiah:9:24 @ but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Jehovah, doing kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says Jehovah.

vw@Jeremiah:9:25 @ Behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that I will punish all the circumcised along with the uncircumcised;

vw@Jeremiah:9:26 @ Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all who are in the remotest quarters, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

vw@Jeremiah:10:1 @ Hear the Word which Jehovah speaks to you, O house of Israel.

vw@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus says Jehovah, Do not learn the way of the nations, and do not be dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

vw@Jeremiah:10:3 @ For the customs of the people are vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the ax, the work of the hands of the craftsman.

vw@Jeremiah:10:4 @ They make it beautiful with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers, so that it will not totter.

vw@Jeremiah:10:5 @ They are crafted into hammered work like a palm tree, and they cannot speak. They must be lifted up and carried, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they are not able to do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

vw@Jeremiah:10:6 @ There is none like You, O Jehovah; You are great, and Your name is great in might.

vw@Jeremiah:10:7 @ Who would not fear You, O King of nations? For fear is befitting to You, because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.

vw@Jeremiah:10:8 @ But they are, every one of them, dull-hearted and foolish; a piece of wood is a discipline in vanities.

vw@Jeremiah:10:9 @ Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman, and of the hands of the goldsmith. Violet and purple is their clothing; they are all the work of skillful ones.

vw@Jeremiah:10:10 @ But Jehovah is the true God, He is the living God, and the eternal King. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to endure His indignation.

vw@Jeremiah:10:11 @ So you shall say to them, The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.

vw@Jeremiah:10:12 @ He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

vw@Jeremiah:10:13 @ When He utters His voice, there is the noise of much water in the heavens. He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings with the rain, and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.

vw@Jeremiah:10:14 @ Every man is stupid in his knowledge; every refiner is dried up by the graven image; for his molten image is a lie, and no breath is in them.

vw@Jeremiah:10:15 @ They are vanity, the work of delusion; in the time of their judgment they shall perish.

vw@Jeremiah:10:16 @ The Portion of Jacob is not like them; for He is the Maker of all things; and Israel is the rod of His inheritance. Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

vw@Jeremiah:10:17 @ Gather up your bundle from the ground, you who live under the siege.

vw@Jeremiah:10:18 @ For thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land this once, and will distress them, so that they may find Me.

vw@Jeremiah:10:19 @ Woe to me for my ruin! My wound makes me sick. But I said, Surely this is an infirmity, and I must bear it.

vw@Jeremiah:10:20 @ My tent is plundered, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone away from me, and they are not. There is no one to stretch out my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

vw@Jeremiah:10:21 @ For the shepherds have become stupid, and have not sought Jehovah, therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

vw@Jeremiah:10:22 @ Behold, the sound of the report has come, and a great commotion out of the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a den of dragons.

vw@Jeremiah:10:23 @ O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.

vw@Jeremiah:10:24 @ O Jehovah, correct me, but with justice; not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

vw@Jeremiah:10:25 @ Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name; for they have eaten up Jacob and have devoured him, and have destroyed him, and have made his dwelling place desolate.

vw@Jeremiah:11:1 @ The Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah saying,