Jeremiah 6 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^6:1 Flee for safety, you⁺ sons of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.
^6:2 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.
^6:3 Shepherds with their flocks will come to her; they will pitch their tents against her round about; they will shepherd every one in his place.
^6:4 Prepare⁺ war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
^6:5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
^6:6 For thus has Yahweh of hosts said, Cut⁺ down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
^6:7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
^6:8 Be instructed, O Jerusalem, or else my soul will be alienated from you; and I will make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.
^6:9 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.
^6:10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Look, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot listen: look, the word of Yahweh has become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
^6:11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding 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.
^6:12 And their 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.
^6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
^6:14 They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
^6:15 They were ashamed when they did these disgusting things. But, they did not feel ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they will fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them they will be cast down, says Yahweh.
^6:16 Thus says Yahweh, 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].
^6:17 And I set watchmen over you⁺, [saying,] Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen.
^6:18 Therefore hear, you⁺ nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
^6:19 Hear, O earth: look, 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.
^6:20 To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your⁺ burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your⁺ sacrifices pleasing to me.
^6:21 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Look, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together will stumble against them; the neighbor and his fellow man will perish.
^6:22 Thus says Yahweh, Look, a people comes from the north country; and a great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
^6:23 They lay hold on 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, O daughter of Zion.
^6:24 We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
^6:25 Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.
^6:26 O daughter of my people, gird with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes: make mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer will suddenly come upon us.
^6:27 Among my people, I have made you as a trier [of metals], as a fortress you will examine and try their way.
^6:28 All of them are grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron: all of them, they deal corruptly.
^6:29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
^6:30 Men will call them refuse silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.

Jeremiah, Chapter 6