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id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/jeremiah/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>Destruction of Jerusalem Impending</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>“Flee for safety, O sons of Benjamin,<br> From the midst of Jerusalem!<br> Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa<br> And raise a signal over Beth-haccerem;<br> For evil looks down from the north,<br> And a great destruction.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>“The comely and dainty one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>“Shepherds and their flocks will come to her,<br> They will pitch <i>their</i> tents around her,<br> They will pasture each in his place.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>“Prepare war against her;<br> Arise, and let us attack at noon.<br> Woe to us, for the day declines,<br> For the shadows of the evening lengthen!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>“Arise, and let us attack by night<br> And destroy her palaces!”<br><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>For thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts,<br> “Cut down her trees<br> And cast up a siege against Jerusalem.<br> This is the city to be punished,<br> In whose midst there is only oppression.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>“As a well keeps its waters fresh,<br> So she keeps fresh her wickedness.<br> Violence and destruction are heard in her;<br> Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>“Be warned, O Jerusalem,<br> Or I shall be alienated from you,<br> And make you a desolation,<br> A land not inhabited.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts,<br> “They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel;<br> Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer<br> Over the branches.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>To whom shall I speak and give warning<br> That they may hear?<br> Behold, their ears are closed<br> And they cannot listen.<br> Behold, the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has become a reproach to them;<br> They have no delight in it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>But I am full of the wrath of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>;<br> I am weary with holding <i>it</i> in.<br> “Pour <i>it</i> out on the children in the street<br> And on the gathering of young men together;<br> For both husband and wife shall be taken,<br> The aged and the very old.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>“Their houses shall be turned over to others,<br> Their fields and their wives together;<br> For I will stretch out My hand<br> Against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them,<br> Everyone is greedy for gain,<br> And from the prophet even to the priest<br> Everyone deals falsely.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>“They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially,<br> Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’<br> But there is no peace.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?<br> They were not even ashamed at all;<br> They did not even know how to blush.<br> Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;<br> At the time that I punish them,<br> They shall be cast down,” says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths,<br> Where the good way is, and walk in it;<br> And you will find rest for your souls.<br> But they said, ‘We will not walk <i>in it.</i>’<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“And I set watchmen over you, <i>saying,</i><br> ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’<br> But they said, ‘We will not listen.’<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“Therefore hear, O nations,<br> And know, O congregation, what is among them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“Hear, O earth: behold, I am bringing disaster on this people,<br> The fruit of their plans,<br> Because they have not listened to My words,<br> And as for My law, they have rejected it also.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba<br> And the sweet cane from a distant land?<br> Your burnt offerings are not acceptable<br> And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me.”<br><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore, thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> “Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people.<br> And they will stumble against them,<br> Fathers and sons together;<br> Neighbor and friend will perish.”<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Enemy from the North</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> “Behold, a people is coming from the north land,<br> And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>“They seize bow and spear;<br> They are cruel and have no mercy;<br> Their voice roars like the sea,<br> And they ride on horses,<br> Arrayed as a man for the battle<br> Against you, O daughter of Zion!”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>We have heard the report of it;<br> Our hands are limp.<br> Anguish has seized us,<br> Pain as of a woman in childbirth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Do not go out into the field<br> And do not walk on the road,<br> For the enemy has a sword,<br> Terror is on every side.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth<br> And roll in ashes;<br> Mourn as for an only son,<br> A lamentation most bitter.<br> For suddenly the destroyer<br> Will come upon us.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>“I have made you an assayer <i>and</i> a tester among My people,<br> That you may know and assay their way.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>All of them are stubbornly rebellious,<br> Going about as a talebearer.<br> <i>They are</i> bronze and iron;<br> They, all of them, are corrupt.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>The bellows blow fiercely,<br> The lead is consumed by the fire;<br> In vain the refining goes on,<br> But the wicked are not separated.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>They call them rejected silver,<br> Because the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has rejected them.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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