The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 6:7 (CSB)

As a well gushes out its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her.
Sickness and wounds keep coming to my attention.

 

[iTheophilus]

Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul depart from you; Lest I make you desolate, A land not inhabited."

- Jeremiah 6:8 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; As a grape-gatherer, put your hand back into the branches."

- Jeremiah 6:9 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

To whom shall I speak and give warning, That they may hear? Indeed their ear is uncircumcised, And they cannot give heed. Behold, the word of the LORD is a reproach to them; They have no delight in it.

- Jeremiah 6:10 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD. I am weary of holding it in. "I will pour it out on the children outside, And on the assembly of young men together; For even the husband shall be taken with the wife, The aged with him who is full of days.

- Jeremiah 6:11 (NKJV)

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 6:12 (NKJV)

And their houses shall be turned over to others, fields and wives together; for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord.

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 6:13 (NKJV)

“Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 6:14 (NIV)

They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. “Peace, peace,” they say, when there is no peace.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 6:15 (NIV)

Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them,’ says the Lord.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 6:16 (NKJV)
Thus says the LORD: “Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

 

[iTheophilus]

Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.'

- Jeremiah 6:17 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Therefore hear, you nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.

- Jeremiah 6:18 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Hear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people—The fruit of their thoughts, Because they have not heeded My words, Nor My law, but rejected it.

- Jeremiah 6:19 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

For what purpose to Me Comes frankincense from Sheba, And sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, Nor your sacrifices sweet to Me."

- Jeremiah 6:20 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, And the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish."

- Jeremiah 6:21 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people comes from the north country, And a great nation will be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.

- Jeremiah 6:22 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

They will lay hold on bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, As men of war set in array against you, O daughter of Zion."

- Jeremiah 6:23 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

We have heard the report of it; Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, Pain as of a woman in labor.

- Jeremiah 6:24 (NKJV)

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 6:25 (NIV)

Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 6:26 (NIV)

Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son,
for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.