Jeremiah 6:1-13 ▼

1 [“] Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin (son of the right hand); flee from Jerusalem (city of peace)! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa (a stockade); send up a signal over Beth-haccherem (house of the vineyard), for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.

2 Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

3 Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

4 ‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.

5 Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

6 For this is what the LORD {YHWH} of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem (city of peace). This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.

7 As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

8 Be forewarned, O Jerusalem (city of peace), or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”

9 This is what the LORD {YHWH} of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel (he wrestles with God) as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”

10 To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed \uncircumcised/, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD {YHWH} has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

11 But I am full of the LORD’s {YHWH} wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

12 Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD {YHWH}.

13 “For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.