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16 Thus says YHWH: “Stand along the pathways, and see; and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is this good way,’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your? souls. And they said, ‘We will not walk!’ 17 And I set over you? watchmen: ‘Listen to the voice of the shofar!’ And they said, ‘We will not listen.’ 18 Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. 19 Hear, O earth! Behold, I am bringing evil upon this people—the fruit of their thoughts!—Because they have paid no attention to My words; and My law, they have rejected it. 20 For what is this to Me, the frankincense that comes from Sheba and the sweet cane from a land far away? Your? burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your? sacrifices are not sweet to Me.” 21 Therefore thus says YHWH: “Behold, I am giving to this people stumbling blocks, and the fathers and the sons together will stumble over them; and the neighbor and his companion will perish!” 22 Thus says YHWH: “Behold, a people is coming from the land of the north, and a great nation shall be roused from the sides of the earth. 23 Bow and spear they hold firmly—they are cruel, and they do not have compassion; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, arrayed as men for the battle, against you, O daughter of Zion!” 24 We have heard the report of it, our hands grow feeble; distress has taken hold of us, writhing as a woman giving birth. 25 You? shall not go out to the field, and on the road You? shall not walk; because of the sword of the enemy, terror is all around! 26 O Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; make for yourself mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly will come the destroyer upon us! 27 “I have appointed you an examiner among My people like ore, that you may know and examine their way. 28 All of them are turning aside, rebelling, walking in slander; they are bronze and iron, they are all acting corruptly. 29 The bellows are burned; by the fire, the lead; in vain has a refiner refined, and the wicked have not been drawn away. 30 They call them rejected silver, because YHWH has rejected them.” Jeremiah 6:16-30, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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