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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 6 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Jeremiah 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/5.htm" title="Jeremiah 5">◄</a> Jeremiah 6 <a href="../jeremiah/7.htm" title="Jeremiah 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/6-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jerusalem’s Final Warning<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Strengthen yourselves, ye children of Benjamin, <i>to flee</i> out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and set up a signal over Baethacharma: for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And <i>thy</i> pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch <i>their</i> tents against her round about, and shall feed <i>their flocks</i> each with his hand.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; <i>there is</i> all oppression in her.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, <i>as</i> continually before her.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For thus saith the Lord, Glean, glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back <i>your hands</i> as a grape-gatherer to his basket.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>To whom shall I speak, and testify, that he may hearken? behold, thine ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear: behold, the word of the Lord is become to them a reproach, they will not at all desire it.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I kept <i>it</i> in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And their houses shall be turned to others, <i>with</i> their fields and their wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of this land, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all wrought falsely.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they healed the breach of my people <i>imperfectly</i>, making light <i>of it</i>, and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are <i>truly</i> ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they <i>utterly</i> fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk <i>in them</i>.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I have set watchmen over you, <i>saying</i>, Hear ye the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear <i>it</i>.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon this people, <i>even</i> the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded my words, and they have rejected my law.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wherefore do ye bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole-burnt-offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I <i>will</i> bring weakness upon this people, and the fathers and sons shall be weak together; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.<p> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">An Invasion from the North<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people comes from the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They shall lay hold on bow and spear; <i>the people</i> is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against thee as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Sion.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle <i>thyself</i> with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, <i>as</i> the mourning for a beloved <i>son</i>: for misery will come suddenly upon you.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I have caused thee to be tried among tried nations, and thou shalt know me when I have tried their way.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><i>They are</i> all disobedient, walking perversely: <i>they are</i> brass and iron; they are all corrupted.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed: the silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Call ye them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>