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1 “ Seek refuge, O sons of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! And in Tekoa blow the shofar, and in in Beth-haccherem lift up a signal, for disaster looks down from the north, even great destruction! 2 Though a beautiful and delicate woman, I will destroy the daughter of Zion! 3 The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her, and they shall pitch the tents against her all around; they shall pasture, each man with his own hand. 4 ‘Be sanctified for war against her! Arise, and let us go up at noon! Woe to us, for the day turns away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out! 5 Arise and let us go up in the night, and let us destroy her fortresses!’” 6 For thus says YHWH of Hosts: “Cut down trees, and pour out against Jerusalem a siege mound! She is the city to be punished, in her midst all of her of oppression. 7 As a fountain wells up with water, so she has dug up her evil; violence and destruction are heard in her, before My face continually are sickness and wounds. 8 Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest My soul should separate from you, lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.” 9 Thus says YHWH of Hosts: “They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine—turn back your hand like a grape-gatherer over the branches!” 10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they are not able to hear. Behold, the word of YHWH is a reproach to them—they do not take delight in it! 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of YHWH—I grow weary of holding it in! “Pour it out on the sons outside, and on the assembly of young men together! For even the husband with his wife will be captured, the aged with the one full of days. 12 And their houses will be turned over to others, the fields and wives together. For I will stretch out My hand against those dwelling in the land!” A declaration of YHWH. 13 “For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, everyone is gaining dishonest gain; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is dealing falsely. Jeremiah 6:1-13, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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