rsv Jeremiah:6:1-22
rsv@Jeremiah:6:1 @ Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Teko'a, and raise a signal on Beth-hacche'rem; for evil looms out of the north, and great destruction.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:2 @ The comely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:3 @ Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:4 @ "Prepare war against her; up, and let us attack at noon!" "Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!"
rsv@Jeremiah:6:5 @ "Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!"
rsv@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Hew down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city which must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:8 @ Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land."
rsv@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches."
rsv@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the old folk and the very aged.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:12 @ Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:13 @ "For from the least to the greatest of them, every one is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, every one deals falsely.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:14 @ They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, `Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:15 @ Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, `We will not walk in it.'
rsv@Jeremiah:6:17 @ I set watchmen over you, saying, `Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, `We will not give heed.'
rsv@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:20 @ To what purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
rsv@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: `Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'"
rsv@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
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