Jeremiah 6
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Jeremiah 6
The Imminence and Horror of the Invasion
1 #
2 Chr 11.6; Neh 3.14; Jer 1.14; 4.6 Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin,
from the midst of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem,
for evil looms out of the north
and great destruction.
2 #
Deut 28.56; Jer 4.31 I have likened daughter Zion
to the loveliest pasture.#6.2 Or I will destroy daughter Zion, the loveliest pasture
3 #
2 Kings 25.1; Jer 4.17; 12.10 Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her.
They shall pitch their tents around her;
they shall pasture, all in their places.
4 #
Jer 15.8; Joel 3.9 “Prepare war against her;
up, and let us attack at noon!”
“Woe to us, for the day declines;
the shadows of evening lengthen!”
5 #
Jer 52.13
“Up, and let us attack by night,
and destroy her palaces!”
6 #
Deut 20.19, 20; Jer 22.17; 32.24 For thus says the Lord of hosts:
Cut down her trees;
cast up a siege ramp against Jerusalem.
This is the city that must be punished;#6.6 Or the city of license
there is nothing but oppression within her.
7 #
Ps 55.9–11; Isa 57.20; Jer 20.8; Ezek 7.11, 23 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.
8 #
Jer 7.28; Ezek 23.18; Hos 9.12 Take warning, O Jerusalem,
or I shall turn from you in disgust
and make you a desolation,
an uninhabited land.
9 #
Jer 8.3; 49.9 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
Glean#6.9 Cn Compare Gk: Heb They shall glean thoroughly as a vine
the remnant of Israel;
like a grape gatherer, pass your hand again
over its branches.
10 #
Jer 7.26; 20.8; Acts 7.51 To whom shall I speak and give warning,
that they may hear?
See, their ears are closed;#6.10 Heb are uncircumcised
they cannot listen.
The word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
they take no pleasure in it.
11 #
Job 32.18, 19; Jer 9.21; 20.9 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
I am weary of holding it in.
Pour it out on the children in the street
and on the gatherings of young men as well;
both husband and wife shall be taken,
the elderly and those full of days.
12 #
Deut 28.30; Jer 8.10; 15.6 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.
13 #
Isa 56.11; Jer 8.10; 22.17; Mic 3.5, 11 For from the least to the greatest of them,
everyone is greedy for unjust gain;
and from prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.
14 #
Jer 4.10; 8.11; 23.17; Ezek 13.10 They have treated the wound of my people carelessly,
saying, “Peace, peace,”
when there is no peace.
15They acted shamefully; they committed abomination,
yet they were not 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.
16 #
Isa 8.20; Jer 18.15; Mal 4.4; Mt 11.29; Lk 16.29 Thus says the Lord:
Stand at the crossroads and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way lies; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.
But they said, “We will not walk in it.”
17 #
Isa 21.11; 58.1; Jer 25.4; Ezek 3.17; Hab 2.1 Also I raised up sentinels for you:
“Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!”
But they said, “We will not give heed.”
18Therefore hear, O nations,
and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
19 #
Prov 1.31; Isa 1.2; Jer 8.9; 19.3, 15 Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people,
the fruit of their schemes,
because they have not given heed to my words,
and as for my teaching, they have rejected it.
20 #
Isa 1.11; 60.6; Jer 7.21; Am 5.21; Mic 6.6 Of what use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba
or sweet cane from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.
21 #
Isa 8.14; Jer 9.21, 22; 13.16 Therefore thus says the Lord:
See, I am laying before this people
stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble;
parents and children together,
neighbor and friend shall perish.
22 #
Neh 1.9; Jer 1.15; 5.15; 10.22; 50.41–43 Thus says the Lord:
See, a people is coming from the land of the north;
a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
23 #
Isa 5.30; Jer 4.29; 50.42 They grasp the bow and the javelin;
they are cruel and have no mercy;
their sound is like the roaring sea;
they ride on horses,
equipped like a warrior for battle,
against you, O daughter Zion!
24 #
Jer 4.31; 13.21; 49.24; 50.43 “We have heard news of them;
our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
pain as of a woman in labor.
25 #
Jer 12.12; 14.18; 20.10 Do not go out into the field
or walk on the road,
for the enemy has a sword;
terror is on every side.”
26 #
Jer 4.8; 25.34; Mic 1.10; Zech 12.10 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
and roll in ashes;
make mourning as for an only child,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.
27I have made you a tester and a refiner#6.27 Or a fortress among my people
so that you may know and test their ways.
28 #
Jer 5.23; 9.4; Ezek 22.18 They are all stubbornly rebellious,
going about with slanders;
they are bronze and iron;
all of them act corruptly.
29The bellows blow fiercely;
the lead is consumed by the fire;#6.29 Cn: Heb lead from their fire
in vain the refining goes on,
for the wicked are not removed.
30They are called “rejected silver,”
for the Lord has rejected them.
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