1473 - Jeremiah 6 part 1

Jeremiah Chapter 6 part 1


“Run for your lives, you people of Benjamin!


Get out of Jerusalem!


Sound the alarm in Tekoa!


Send up a signal at Beth-hakkerem!


A powerful army is coming, from the north, …they are coming with disaster and destruction.


O Jerusalem,* you are my beautiful and delicate daughter—

but I will destroy you!


Enemies will surround you, like shepherds camped around the city.


Each chooses a place, for his troops to devour.


They shout, ‘Prepare for battle!


Attack at noon!’


‘No, it’s too late; the day is fading,

and the evening shadows are falling.’


‘Well then, let’s attack at night, and destroy her palaces!’ ”


This is what the Lord, of Heaven’s Armies, says:


“Cut down the trees, for battering rams.


Build siege ramps, against the walls of Jerusalem.


This is the city to be punished, for she is wicked, through and through.


She spouts evil, like a fountain.


Her streets echo, with the sounds of violence …and destruction.


I always see her sickness, and her sores.


Listen to this warning, Jerusalem,

or I will turn from you, in disgust.


Listen, or I will turn you into a heap of ruins, a land where no one lives.”


This is what the Lord, of Heaven’s Armies, says:


“Even the few who remain, in Israel, will be picked over again,

as when a harvester checks each vine a second time, …to pick the grapes that were missed.”


To whom, can I give warning?


Who will listen, when I speak?


Their ears are closed, and they cannot hear.


They scorn ..the word of the Lord.


They don’t want to listen, at all.


So, now, I am filled …with the Lord’s fury.


Yes, I am tired of holding it in!


“I will pour out my fury, on children, playing in the streets, and on gatherings of young men,

…on husbands and wives, and on those, who are old and gray.


Their homes will be turned over to their enemies, as will their fields …and their wives.


For I will raise my powerful fist,

against the people of this land,”

says the Lord.


“From the least, to the greatest,

their lives are ruled by greed.


From prophets to priests, they are all frauds.


They offer superficial treatments, for my people’s mortal wo und.


They give assurances, of peace, when there is no peace.


Are they ashamed, of their disgusting actions?


Not at all—they don’t even know how to blush!


Therefore, they will lie, among the slaughtered.


They will be brought down, when I punish them,” says the Lord.


The Holy Bible 

New Living Translation 


Jeremiah 6:1–15


Praise be to God!



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