Jeremiah 6

1“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.Cross-references: Josh 15:63 · Josh 18:21 · Judg 1:21 · 2Sam 14:2 · 2Chr 11:6 · Neh 3:14 · +10 more

2I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.Cross-references: Isa 1:8 · Isa 3:16 · Jer 4:31 · Lam 2:1 · Lam 2:13

3Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”Cross-references: 2Ki 24:2 · 2Ki 24:10 · 2Ki 25:1 · Jer 4:16 · Jer 12:10 · Jer 39:1 · +2 more

4“Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.Cross-references: Song 2:17 · Isa 5:26 · Isa 13:2 · Jer 5:10 · Jer 8:20 · Jer 15:8 · +3 more

5Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”Cross-references: 2Chr 36:19 · Ps 48:3 · Isa 32:14 · Jer 9:21 · Jer 17:27 · Jer 52:13 · +4 more

6For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is filled with oppression within herself.Cross-references: Deut 20:19 · Jer 32:24

7As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.Cross-references: Ps 55:9 · Prov 4:23 · Isa 57:20 · Jer 20:8 · Ezek 7:11 · Ezek 7:23 · +8 more

8Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”Cross-references: Lev 26:34 · Deut 32:29 · Ps 2:10 · Ps 50:17 · Ps 94:12 · Prov 4:13 · +14 more

9Yahweh of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”Cross-references: Jer 16:16 · Jer 49:9 · Jer 52:28 · Obad 1:5 · Rev 14:18

10To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.Cross-references: Ex 6:12 · Deut 29:4 · 2Chr 36:15 · Ps 1:2 · Ps 40:8 · Ps 119:16 · +28 more

11Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.Cross-references: Job 32:18 · Jer 7:20 · Jer 9:21 · Jer 18:21 · Jer 20:9 · Ezek 3:14 · +7 more

12Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.”Cross-references: Deut 28:30 · Deut 28:39 · 1Chr 21:16 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 9:12 · Isa 9:17 · +11 more

13“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.Cross-references: Isa 28:7 · Isa 56:9 · Isa 57:17 · Jer 2:8 · Jer 2:26 · Jer 5:31 · +20 more

14They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.Cross-references: Isa 1:6 · Isa 30:26 · Jer 4:10 · Jer 5:12 · Jer 8:11 · Jer 14:13 · +9 more

15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 32:34 · Prov 29:1 · Isa 3:9 · Isa 10:4 · Jer 3:3 · Jer 5:9 · +14 more

16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’Cross-references: Deut 32:7 · Song 1:7 · Isa 2:5 · Isa 8:20 · Isa 28:12 · Isa 30:21 · +20 more

17I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’Cross-references: Isa 21:11 · Isa 56:10 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 25:4 · Ezek 3:17 · Ezek 33:2 · +6 more

18Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.Cross-references: Deut 29:24 · Ps 50:4 · Isa 5:3 · Jer 4:10 · Jer 31:10 · Mic 6:5

19Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.Cross-references: Deut 4:26 · Deut 30:19 · Deut 32:1 · 1Sam 15:23 · 1Sam 15:26 · Prov 1:24 · +17 more

20To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”Cross-references: Ex 30:23 · 1Ki 10:1 · 1Ki 10:10 · Ps 40:6 · Ps 50:7 · Ps 50:16 · +10 more

21Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”Cross-references: 2Chr 36:17 · Isa 8:14 · Isa 9:14 · Isa 24:2 · Jer 9:21 · Jer 13:16 · +12 more

22Yahweh says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.Cross-references: Jer 1:14 · Jer 5:15 · Jer 6:1 · Jer 10:22 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 50:41

23They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”Cross-references: Isa 5:26 · Isa 13:18 · Isa 19:4 · Jer 4:13 · Jer 4:29 · Jer 5:16 · +5 more

24We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.Cross-references: Ps 48:6 · Prov 1:27 · Isa 21:3 · Isa 28:19 · Jer 4:6 · Jer 4:19 · +10 more

25Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.Cross-references: Judg 5:6 · 2Chr 15:5 · Job 18:11 · Ps 31:13 · Isa 1:20 · Jer 4:5 · +7 more

26Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.Cross-references: Isa 22:4 · Isa 22:12 · Isa 30:13 · Isa 32:11 · Jer 4:8 · Jer 4:11 · +26 more

27“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.Cross-references: Jer 1:18 · Jer 9:7 · Jer 15:20 · Ezek 3:8 · Ezek 20:4 · Ezek 22:2

28They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.Cross-references: Ps 50:20 · Isa 1:4 · Isa 31:6 · Jer 5:23 · Jer 6:30 · Jer 9:4 · +5 more

29The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.Cross-references: Prov 17:3 · Isa 49:4 · Jer 9:7 · Ezek 24:13 · Hos 11:7 · Zech 13:9 · +3 more

30Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”Cross-references: Ps 119:119 · Prov 25:4 · Isa 1:22 · Isa 1:25 · Jer 7:29 · Jer 14:19 · +5 more