LEB JER chapter 6

LEB JER Chapter 6

from the midst of Jerusalem.

And in Tekoa blow a horn,

and on Beth-haccherem lift up a signal,

for evil looks down from the north,

and a great destruction.
2  the daughter of Jerusalem, I will destroy.
3  they will pitch their tents against her all around,
they will pasture, each his[fn]
4 [fn] war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon.

Woe to us, for the day turns,

for the shadows of evening are lengthened.
5  and let us destroy her citadel fortresses.”
6  “Cut down trees and heap up a siege ramp against Jerusalem.

This is the city that must be punished,

its oppression is in its midst.
7  so she keeps cool her wickedness.

Violence and destruction are heard within her,

sickness and wounds[fn] are continually[fn]
8 O Jerusalem, lest I turn away from you in disgust,

lest I make you a desolation,

a land that is not inhabited.”
9  “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine,
turn back your hand over the branches like a grape-gatherer.
10  that they may hear?

Look, their ears are[fn]

and they are not able to listen attentively.

Look, the word of Yahweh is to them an object of scorn,

they do not delight in it.
11  I struggle to hold it[fn] in.

Pour it out on the children[fn] in the street,

and on the assemblies[fn] of young men at the same time.

For even husband with wife will get trapped,

the old with him who is full of days.
12  their fields and their wives together.

For I will stretch out my hand

against the inhabitants of the land,”[fn] Yahweh.
13 [fn] makes profit for unlawful gain.

And from the prophet to the priest,

[fn] practices deceit.
14 [fn] ‘Peace, peace,’ but there is no peace.
15  Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated.

[fn] they will fall among those who fall at the time I punish them,

they will stumble,” says Yahweh.
16 the roads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the way of the good is,

and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves.[fn]

But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’[fn]
17 ‘Listen attentively to the sound of a horn.’
But they said, ‘We will not listen attentively.’
18 [fn] hear, O nations, and know, O community,[fn]
19  look, I am about to bring disaster to this people,
the fruit of their plans,

because they have not listened attentively to my words,

and my teaching, they have rejected it also.
20 is this to me? Frankincense comes from Sheba,

and the precious spice reed from a distant land.

Your burnt offerings are not[fn]
your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
21 [fn] thus says Yahweh: “Look, I am about to put before this people stumbling blocks,

and they will stumble against them,

fathers and children together,
neighbor and his friend will perish.”

22  “Look, a people is coming from the land of the north,

a great nation is woken up from the farthest part of the earth.
23 The bow and the short sword they grasp are cruel, and they show no mercy.

Their sound roars like the sea, and on horses they ride,

drawn up like a man for battle against you, O daughter of Zion.”
24  our hands grow slack,

anxiety has grasped us,

pain as a woman who gives birth.
25 into the field, and you must not walk on the road,

for[fn]

terror is all around.
26  gird yourself with sackcloth,

and roll about in the ashes in mourning,

a mourning ceremony as for an only child.

Make for yourself wailing of bitterness,

for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
27  so that you may know and put to the test their ways.[fn]
28 are stubborn rebels, going about talking slander.

They are bronze and iron,

they are all behaving corruptly.
29 The bellows[fn] are burned up,lead is consumed by fire.

[fn][fn]

but the wicked are not torn apart.
30 [fn] rejected silver, For Yahweh has rejected them.”

?:? Literally “hand”

?:? Or “Consecrate”

?:? Hebrew “wound”

?:? Literally “at the face of me”

?:? Literally “uncircumcised”

?:? Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

?:? Hebrew “child”

?:? Hebrew “assembly”

?:? Literally “a declaration of”

?:? Literally “all of him”

?:? Literally “to say”

?:? Literally “To thus”

?:? Hebrew “inner self”

?:? Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

?:? Literally “To thus”

?:? Literally “what among them”

?:? Literally “for acceptance”

?:? Literally “To thus”

?:? Literally “a sword for enemy”

?:? Hebrew “way”

?:? Hebrew “bellow”

?:? Literally “To the vanity”

?:? Literally “he refines refining”

?:? Literally “They call to them”