jps - Jeremiah:6-8

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:

jps@Jeremiah:7:2 @ Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:7:3 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

jps@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Trust ye not in lying words, saying: 'The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, are these.'

jps@Jeremiah:7:5 @ Nay, but if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour;

jps@Jeremiah:7:6 @ if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;

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

jps@Jeremiah:7:8 @ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

jps@Jeremiah:7:9 @ Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have not known,

jps@Jeremiah:7:10 @ and come and stand before Me in this house, whereupon My name is called, and say: 'We are delivered', that ye may do all these abominations?

jps@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Is this house, whereupon My name is called, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:7:12 @ For go ye now unto My place which was in Shiloh, where I caused My name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of My people Israel.

jps@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spoke unto you, speaking betimes and often, but ye heard not, and I called you, but ye answered not;

jps@Jeremiah:7:14 @ therefore will I do unto the house, whereupon My name is called, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

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

jps@Jeremiah:7:16 @ Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me; for I will not hear thee.

jps@Jeremiah:7:17 @ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

jps@Jeremiah:7:18 @ The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.

jps@Jeremiah:7:19 @ Do they provoke Me? saith the LORD; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

jps@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, Mine anger and My fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the land; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

jps@Jeremiah:7:21 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.

jps@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices;

jps@Jeremiah:7:23 @ but this thing I commanded them, saying: 'Hearken unto My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'

jps@Jeremiah:7:24 @ But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, even in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward,

jps@Jeremiah:7:25 @ even since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day; and though I have sent unto you all My servants the prophets, sending them daily betimes and often,

jps@Jeremiah:7:26 @ yet they hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff; they did worse than their fathers.

jps@Jeremiah:7:27 @ And thou shalt speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken to thee; thou shalt also call unto them, but they will not answer thee.

jps@Jeremiah:7:28 @ Therefore thou shalt say unto them: This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of the LORD their God, nor received correction; faithfulness is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

jps@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the high hills; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.

jps@Jeremiah:7:30 @ For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight, saith the LORD; they have set their detestable things in the house whereon My name is called, to defile it.

jps@Jeremiah:7:31 @ And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into My mind.

jps@Jeremiah:7:32 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Topheth, for lack of room.

jps@Jeremiah:7:33 @ And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

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

jps@Jeremiah:8:1 @ At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;

jps@Jeremiah:8:2 @ and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped; they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

jps@Jeremiah:8:3 @ And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

jps@Jeremiah:8:4 @ Moreover thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD: Do men fall, and not rise up again? Doth one turn away, and not return?

jps@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

jps@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I attended and listened, but they spoke not aright; no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying: 'What have I done?' Every one turneth away in his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

jps@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the ordinance of the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:8:8 @ How do ye say: 'We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us'? Lo, certainly in vain hath wrought the vain pen of the scribes.

jps@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken; Lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

jps@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them; for from the least even unto the greatest every one is greedy for gain, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

jps@Jeremiah:8:11 @ And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace.

jps@Jeremiah:8:12 @ 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 shall they fall among them that fall, in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:8:13 @ I will utterly consume them, saith the LORD; there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is faded; and I gave them that which they transgress.

jps@Jeremiah:8:14 @ 'Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be cut off there; for the LORD our God hath cut us off, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

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

jps@Jeremiah:8:16 @ The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those that dwell therein.

jps@Jeremiah:8:17 @ For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:8:18 @ Though I would take comfort against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

jps@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far off: 'Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?'-- 'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities?'--

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

jps@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I seized with anguish; I am black, appalment hath taken hold on me.

jps@Jeremiah:8:22 @ Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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