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Listen, or I will turn you into a heap of ruins, a land where no one lives.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jeremiah/6.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I turn from you in disgust, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/6.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/6.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/6.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul depart from you; Lest I make you desolate, A land not inhabited.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/6.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Be warned, Jerusalem, Or I shall be alienated from you, And make you a desolation, An uninhabited land.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/6.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Be warned, O Jerusalem, Or I shall be alienated from you, And make you a desolation, A land not inhabited.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/6.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Be warned, O Jerusalem, Lest I be alienated from you; Lest I make you a desolation, A land not inhabited.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/6.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Heed discipline, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul become disgusted at you, Lest I make you a desolation, A land not inhabited.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/6.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Be wise <i>and</i> be warned, O Jerusalem, Or I will be alienated from you, And make you a desolation, An uninhabited land.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/6.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/6.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitants. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/6.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Listen to me, you people of Jerusalem and Judah. I will abandon you, and your land will become an empty desert. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/6.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/6.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Pay attention to my warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you. I will make your land desolate, a land where no one will live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/6.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />People of Jerusalem, let these troubles be a warning to you, or else I will abandon you; I will turn your city into a desert, a place where no one lives." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/6.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Be warned, Jerusalem, or I'll be alienated from you. I'll make you desolate, a land not inhabited."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/6.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />So take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust and make you desolate, a place where no one can live." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/6.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/6.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/6.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/6.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Be instructed, O Jerusalem, "" Lest My soul be alienated from you, "" Lest I make you a desolation, "" A land [that is] not inhabited.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/6.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Be admonished, O Jerusalem, lest thy soul shall be alienated from thee; lest I shall set thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/6.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, accept instruction, lest perhaps my soul may withdraw from you; lest perhaps I may set you in a desert, in an uninhabitable land.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/6.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will be estranged from you, And I will turn you into a wilderness, a land where no one dwells. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I shall turn from you in disgust, and make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/6.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Be chastised, O Jerusalem, lest my soul abhor you; lest I make you desolate like an uninhabited land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/6.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />In sorrows and with scourgings be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul will turn from you, lest I shall make you a wilderness, as a land that is uninhabited’”<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/6.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee desolate, A land not inhabited.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/6.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=1799" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/6.htm">Jerusalem's Final Warning</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3256.htm" title="3256: hiw·wā·sə·rî (V-Nifal-Imp-fs) -- To discipline, chasten, admonish. A primitive root; to chastise, literally or figuratively; hence, to instruct.">Be forewarned,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3389.htm" title="3389: yə·rū·šā·lim (N-proper-fs) -- Probably foundation of peace, capital city of all Isr. ">O Jerusalem,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6435.htm" title="6435: pen- (Conj) -- Lest. From panah; properly, removal; used only adverb as conjunction, lest.">or</a> <a href="/hebrew/5315.htm" title="5315: nap̄·šî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- From naphash; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. Animal of vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense.">I</a> <a href="/hebrew/3363.htm" title="3363: tê·qa‘ (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- A primitive root; properly, to sever oneself, i.e. to be dislocated; figuratively, to abandon; causatively, to impale.">will turn away</a> <a href="/hebrew/4480.htm" title="4480: mim·mêḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- From. Or minniy; or minney; for men; properly, a part of; hence, from or out of in many senses.">from you;</a> <a href="/hebrew/6435.htm" title="6435: pen- (Conj) -- Lest. From panah; properly, removal; used only adverb as conjunction, lest."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: ’ă·śî·mêḵ (V-Qal-Imperf-1cs:: 2fs) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">I will make</a> <a href="/hebrew/8077.htm" title="8077: šə·mā·māh (N-fs) -- Devastation, waste. Or shimamah; feminine of shamem; devastation; figuratively, astonishment.">you a desolation,</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’e·reṣ (N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">a land</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō·w (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">without</a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: nō·wō·šā·ḇāh (V-Nifal-Perf-3fs) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">inhabitant.”</a> </span><span class="reftext">9</span>This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16-20</a></span><br />Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! / Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.” / “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/2-1.htm">Zephaniah 2:1-3</a></span><br />Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation, / before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you. / Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/4-6.htm">Amos 4:6-12</a></span><br />“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. / “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered. / People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/4-1.htm">Hosea 4:1-3</a></span><br />Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! / Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another. / Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/55-6.htm">Isaiah 55:6-7</a></span><br />Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. / Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/18-30.htm">Ezekiel 18:30-32</a></span><br />Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall. / Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel? / For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/7-14.htm">2 Chronicles 7:14</a></span><br />and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/3-40.htm">Lamentations 3:40-42</a></span><br />Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. / Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: / “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Joel 2:12-14</a></span><br />“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” / So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster. / Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-8.htm">Micah 6:8-9</a></span><br />He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? / The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37-39</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. / For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/13-34.htm">Luke 13:34-35</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/12-25.htm">Hebrews 12:25</a></span><br />See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/2-4.htm">Revelation 2:4-5</a></span><br />But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love. / Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/3-19.htm">Acts 3:19</a></span><br />Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.</p><p class="hdg">Be thou.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/4-14.htm">Jeremiah 4:14</a></b></br> O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/7-3.htm">Jeremiah 7:3-7</a></b></br> 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… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/17-23.htm">Jeremiah 17:23</a></b></br> But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.</p><p class="hdg">lest.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Ezekiel 23:18</a></b></br> So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/9-12.htm">Hosea 9:12</a></b></br> Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, <i>that there shall</i> not <i>be</i> a man <i>left</i>: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/zechariah/11-8.htm">Zechariah 11:8,9</a></b></br> Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me… </p><p class="hdg">depart.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/2-15.htm">Jeremiah 2:15</a></b></br> The young lions roared upon him, <i>and</i> yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/7-20.htm">Jeremiah 7:20,34</a></b></br> 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 ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/9-11.htm">Jeremiah 9:11</a></b></br> And I will make Jerusalem heaps, <i>and</i> a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/78-30.htm">Alienated</a> <a href="/proverbs/31-1.htm">Corrected</a> <a href="/isaiah/59-21.htm">Depart</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-30.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-27.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-21.htm">Inhabited</a> <a href="/isaiah/50-4.htm">Instructed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-6.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-29.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-3.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-10.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-4.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-16.htm">Undergo</a> <a href="/luke/9-12.htm">Uninhabited</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-7.htm">Unpeopled</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-11.htm">Warned</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-11.htm">Warning</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-10.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Alienated</a> <a href="/acts/24-2.htm">Corrected</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-13.htm">Depart</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-34.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-34.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-6.htm">Inhabited</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-12.htm">Instructed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-17.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-9.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-19.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-9.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-9.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-13.htm">Undergo</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-6.htm">Uninhabited</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-6.htm">Unpeopled</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-7.htm">Warned</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-10.htm">Warning</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-30.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 6</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-1.htm">The enemies sent against Judah,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-4.htm">encourage themselves.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-6.htm">God sets them on work because of their sins.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-9.htm">The prophet laments the judgments of God because of their sins.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-18.htm">He proclaims God's wrath.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">26. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/6-26.htm">He calls the people to mourn for the judgment on their sins.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The warning is a call to repentance, emphasizing the urgency of turning back to God. Historically, Jerusalem was the political and spiritual center of the Jewish people, housing the Temple built by Solomon. The warning reflects the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where disobedience leads to consequences. This echoes earlier warnings given by prophets like Isaiah and Hosea, who also called for repentance to avoid impending judgment.<p><b>or I will turn away from you</b><br>This phrase indicates the potential withdrawal of God's presence and favor. In the Old Testament, God's presence was symbolized by the Temple in Jerusalem. The turning away signifies a breach in the covenant relationship, where God would no longer protect or bless the people. This is reminiscent of the conditional nature of the blessings and curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>, where obedience brings blessings and disobedience results in curses. Theologically, it underscores the seriousness of sin and the need for repentance to maintain fellowship with God.<p><b>I will make you a desolation</b><br>The term "desolation" implies complete destruction and abandonment. Historically, this prophecy was fulfilled when Babylon, under King Nebuchadnezzar, destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC. Archaeological evidence supports the extensive destruction of the city during this period. Theologically, desolation serves as a symbol of divine judgment, reflecting the consequences of persistent sin and rebellion against God. It also foreshadows the ultimate desolation that sin brings, pointing to the need for redemption through Christ.<p><b>a land without inhabitant</b><br>This phrase emphasizes the totality of the coming judgment, where the land would be left empty and uninhabited. This was a literal fulfillment during the Babylonian exile when the people of Judah were taken captive, leaving the land barren. The imagery of an uninhabited land serves as a stark warning of the consequences of turning away from God. It also connects to the broader biblical theme of exile and restoration, where God promises to eventually restore His people, as seen in prophecies like those in Ezekiel and the return from exile under leaders like Ezra and Nehemiah.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>A prophet called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah. His ministry was marked by deep personal struggle and unwavering commitment to God's word.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The capital city of Judah, central to Jewish worship and identity. It was the focal point of God's warnings due to its spiritual and moral decline.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/g/god's_warning.htm">God's Warning</a></b><br>The event of God issuing a stern warning to Jerusalem through Jeremiah, emphasizing the consequences of continued disobedience.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_seriousness_of_god's_warnings.htm">The Seriousness of God's Warnings</a></b><br>God's warnings are not to be taken lightly. They are expressions of His justice and love, urging repentance to avoid judgment.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_disobedience.htm">The Consequences of Disobedience</a></b><br>Persistent disobedience leads to desolation. Just as Jerusalem faced destruction, ignoring God's commands today can lead to spiritual desolation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>God’s warnings are coupled with a call to repentance. Turning back to God can avert disaster and restore relationship.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_prophets.htm">The Role of Prophets</a></b><br>Prophets like Jeremiah serve as God's mouthpieces, delivering messages that are often unpopular but necessary for spiritual health.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_desire_for_relationship.htm">God's Desire for Relationship</a></b><br>Despite the warnings, God's ultimate desire is for a restored relationship with His people, highlighting His mercy and grace.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_6.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 6</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_god_possess_a_soul.htm">Does God possess a soul?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_church_of_god_in_anderson.htm">What does 'Your house will be left desolate' mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_jeremiah_6_1_predict_doom_inaccurately.htm">How can Jeremiah 6:1 claim impending doom on Jerusalem without historical evidence of such a massive catastrophe at that specific time?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_70_years_fasting.htm">Zechariah 7:5 mentions seventy years of fasting; is there archaeological or historical evidence to confirm the exact duration of this period?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">Be thou instructed.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">Be thou corrected, </span>or, <span class= "ital">chastened. </span>Comp. <a href="/psalms/2-10.htm" title="Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.">Psalm 2:10</a>; <a href="/leviticus/26-23.htm" title="And if you will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me;">Leviticus 26:23</a> (where we have "reformed"); and <a href="/proverbs/29-19.htm" title="A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.">Proverbs 29:19</a>.<p><span class= "bld">Lest my soul.</span>--As in <a href="/jeremiah/4-19.htm" title="My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.">Jeremiah 4:19</a>, the Hebrew formula for emphasised personality. The word for "depart" may be better rendered <span class= "ital">tear itself away.</span><p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Be thou instructed</span>; rather, <span class="accented">Let thyself be corrected</span> (Authorized Version misses the sense, a very important one, of the conjugation, which is <span class="accented">Nifal tolerativum</span> (comp. <a href="/psalms/2-10.htm">Psalm 2:10</a>; <a href="/isaiah/53-12.htm">Isaiah 53:12</a>). The phrase equivalent to "receive correction" (<a href="/jeremiah/2-30.htm">Jeremiah 2:30</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/5-3.htm">Jeremiah 5:3</a>), and means to accept the warning conveyed in the Divine chastisement. Lest my soul, etc.; rather, <span class="accented">lest my soul be rent from</span> thee (Authorized Version renders the same verb in <a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Ezekiel 23:17</a>, "be alienated"). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Be warned,</span><br /><span class="heb">הִוָּסְרִי֙</span> <span class="translit">(hiw·wā·sə·rî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Nifal - Imperative - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3256.htm">Strong's 3256: </a> </span><span class="str2">To discipline, chasten, admonish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(yə·rū·šā·lim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3389.htm">Strong's 3389: </a> </span><span class="str2">Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">or</span><br /><span class="heb">פֶּן־</span> <span class="translit">(pen-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6435.htm">Strong's 6435: </a> </span><span class="str2">Removal, lest</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I</span><br /><span class="heb">נַפְשִׁ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(nap̄·šî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5315.htm">Strong's 5315: </a> </span><span class="str2">A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion </span><br /><br /><span class="word">will turn away</span><br /><span class="heb">תֵּקַ֥ע</span> <span class="translit">(tê·qa‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3363.htm">Strong's 3363: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sever oneself, to be dislocated, to abandon, to impale</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from you;</span><br /><span class="heb">מִמֵּ֑ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(mim·mêḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4480.htm">Strong's 4480: </a> </span><span class="str2">A part of, from, out of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I will make</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲשִׂימֵ֣ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·śî·mêḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> </span><span class="str2">Put -- to put, place, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you a desolation,</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁמָמָ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(šə·mā·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8077.htm">Strong's 8077: </a> </span><span class="str2">Devastation, astonishment</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a land</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶ֖רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(’e·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">without</span><br /><span class="heb">ל֥וֹא</span> <span class="translit">(lō·w)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">inhabitants.”</span><br /><span class="heb">נוֹשָֽׁבָה׃</span> <span class="translit">(nō·wō·šā·ḇāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/6-8.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 6:8 Be instructed Jerusalem lest my soul be (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/6-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 6:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 6:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/6-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 6:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 6:9" /></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="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>