Book 13 : NEVIIM - JEREMIAH - Chapter 006
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Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin, away
from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal on
Beth-cherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction
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The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I
cut off
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Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their
tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand
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'Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at
noon!' 'Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are
stretched out!
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'Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her
palaces.
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For thus hath HaShem of hosts said: hew ye down her trees,
and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished;
everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her
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As a cistern welleth with her waters, so she welleth with
her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before Me continually is
sickness and wounds
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Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated
from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited
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Thus saith HaShem of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as
a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer upon the
shoots
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To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may
hear? Behold, their ear is dull, and they cannot attend; behold, the word of
HaShem is become unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it
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Therefore I am full of the fury of HaShem, I am weary with
holding in: pour it out upon the babes in the street, and upon the assembly of
young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged
with him that is full of days
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And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields
and their wives together; for I will stretch out My hand upon the inhabitants of
the land, saith HaShem
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For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
every one is greedy for gain; and from the prophet even unto the priest every
one dealeth falsely
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They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly,
saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace
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They shall be put to shame because they have committed
abomination; yea, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they how to blush;
therefore they shall fall among them that fall, at the time that I punish them
they shall stumble, saith HaShem
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Thus saith HaShem: stand ye in the ways and see, and ask
for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find
rest for your souls. But they said: 'We will not walk therein.
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And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the
horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.
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Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what
is against them
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Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people,
even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not attended unto My words,
and as for My teaching, they have rejected it
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To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from
Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not
acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me
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Therefore thus saith HaShem: Behold, I will lay
stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall
stumble against them, the neighbour and his friend, and they shall perish
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Thus saith HaShem: Behold, a people cometh from the north
country, and a great nation shall be roused from the uttermost parts of the
earth
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They lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel, and have
no compassion; their voice is like the roaring sea, and they ride upon horses;
set in array, as a man for war, against thee, O daughter of Zion
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'We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble,
anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
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Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for
there is the sword of the enemy, and terror on every side
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O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and
wallow thyself in ashes; make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter
lamentation; for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us
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I have made thee a tower and a fortress among My people;
that thou mayest know and try their way
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They are all grievous revolters, going about with
slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly
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The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the
fire; in vain doth the founder refine, for the wicked are not separated
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Refuse silver shall men call them, because HaShem hath
rejected them
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