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Jeremiah 6:18-30
New International Version
Jeremiah 6:18-30
New International Version
18 Therefore hear, you nations;
you who are witnesses,
observe what will happen to them.
19 Hear, you earth:(A)
I am bringing disaster(B) on this people,
the fruit of their schemes,(C)
because they have not listened to my words(D)
and have rejected my law.(E)
20 What do I care about incense from Sheba(F)
or sweet calamus(G) from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable;(H)
your sacrifices(I) do not please me.”(J)
21 Therefore this is what the Lord says:
“I will put obstacles before this people.
Parents and children alike will stumble(K) over them;
neighbors and friends will perish.”
22 This is what the Lord says:
“Look, an army is coming
from the land of the north;(L)
a great nation is being stirred up
from the ends of the earth.(M)
23 They are armed with bow and spear;
they are cruel and show no mercy.(N)
They sound like the roaring sea(O)
as they ride on their horses;(P)
they come like men in battle formation
to attack you, Daughter Zion.(Q)”
24 We have heard reports about them,
and our hands hang limp.(R)
Anguish(S) has gripped us,
pain like that of a woman in labor.(T)
25 Do not go out to the fields
or walk on the roads,
for the enemy has a sword,
and there is terror on every side.(U)
26 Put on sackcloth,(V) my people,
and roll in ashes;(W)
mourn with bitter wailing(X)
as for an only son,(Y)
for suddenly the destroyer(Z)
will come upon us.
27 “I have made you a tester(AA) of metals
and my people the ore,
that you may observe
and test their ways.
28 They are all hardened rebels,(AB)
going about to slander.(AC)
They are bronze and iron;(AD)
they all act corruptly.
29 The bellows blow fiercely
to burn away the lead with fire,
but the refining(AE) goes on in vain;
the wicked are not purged out.
30 They are called rejected silver,(AF)
because the Lord has rejected them.”(AG)
Jeremiah 6:18-30
King James Version
Jeremiah 6:18-30
King James Version
18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
22 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
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