Jeremiah 6:22-30 ▼

22 Thus said YHWH: “Behold, a people has come from a north country, || And a great nation is stirred up from the sides of the earth.

23 They take hold of bow and javelin, || It [is] fierce, and they have no mercy, || Their voice sounds as a sea, || And they ride on horses, || Set in array as a man of war, || Against you, O daughter of Zion.”

24 We have heard its sound, our hands have been feeble, || Distress has seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.

25 Do not go forth to the field, || And do not walk in the way, || For the enemy has a sword, || Fear [is] all around.

26 O daughter of my people, || Gird on sackcloth, || And roll yourself in ashes, || Make mourning [as for] an only one, || A most bitter lamentation, || For the spoiler suddenly comes against us.

27 “I have given you a watchtower, || A fortress among My people, || And you know, and have tried their way.

28 All of them are turned aside by apostates, || Walking slanderously—bronze and iron, || All of them are corrupters.

29 The bellows have been burned, || The lead has been consumed by fire, || A refiner has refined in vain, || And the wicked have not been drawn away.

30 They have called them rejected silver, || For YHWH has kicked against them!”