These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 6
Tanakh 30 verses
- 1 Put yourselves under covert, ye children of , Away from the midst of , 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 , 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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- 4 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!’
- 5 Arise, and let us go up by night, And let us destroy her palaces.’
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For thus hath of hosts said: Hew ye down her trees, And cast up a mound against ; This is the city to be punished; Everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.
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- 7 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 , Lest My be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee desolate, A land not inhabited.
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Thus saith of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine The remnant of ; 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 ? Behold, their ear is dull, And they cannot attend; Behold, the of is become unto them a reproach, They have no delight in it.
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Acts 7:51 Jeremiah 7:26 Exodus 6:12 Isaiah 53:1 Psalm 119:70 Matthew 3:7 Psalm 119:35 Luke 11:45 Acts 7:60 2 Timothy 4:3 Jeremiah 5:4-5 Luke 20:19 Jeremiah 4:4 Psalm 1:2 Hebrews 11:7 Deuteronomy 29:4 Psalm 119:174 Ezekiel 33:9 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 Ezekiel 3:18-21 John 7:7 Isaiah 28:9-13 Colossians 1:28 Romans 7:22 Isaiah 42:23-25 Ezekiel 33:3 Isaiah 6:9-10 John 9:40 Psalm 119:16 Psalm 40:8 Psalm 119:77 Jeremiah 20:8-9 Psalm 119:24 Amos 7:10 - 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of , I am weary with holding in: Pour it out upon the babes in the street, And upon the of young men together; For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, The aged with him that is full of days.
- 12 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 .
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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 even unto the Every one dealeth falsely.
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Jeremiah 23:11 Jeremiah 8:10 Micah 3:11 Ezekiel 22:25-28 Zephaniah 3:3-4 Jeremiah 22:17 Jeremiah 14:18 Jeremiah 5:31 Micah 3:5 Micah 3:2-3 Isaiah 57:17 Luke 16:14 Isaiah 56:9-12 Jeremiah 26:7-8 2 Peter 2:3 Lamentations 4:13 Micah 2:1-2 Jeremiah 32:32 2 Peter 2:14-15 1 Timothy 3:3 Jeremiah 23:14-15 Ezekiel 33:31 Ezekiel 22:12 Jeremiah 2:8 Jeremiah 2:26 Isaiah 28:7 - 14 They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly, Saying: ‘Peace, peace’, when there is no .
- 15 They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination; Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Neither they how to blush; Therefore they shall fall among them that fall, At the time that I punish them they shall stumble, Saith .
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Thus saith : 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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Jeremiah 18:15 Deuteronomy 32:7 Malachi 4:4 Isaiah 30:21 Luke 16:29 Isaiah 8:20 Jeremiah 44:16 Isaiah 28:12 Matthew 11:28-29 Jeremiah 18:12 Colossians 2:6 Isaiah 2:5 Jeremiah 7:23 John 12:35 John 5:46-47 John 5:39 Jeremiah 2:25 John 13:17 Romans 4:12 Acts 17:11 Jeremiah 22:21 Romans 4:1-6 Hebrews 11:2 Hebrews 6:12 Matthew 21:28-32 Song of Solomon 1:7-8 - 17 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 , ye nations, And , 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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Jeremiah 8:9 Jeremiah 22:29 Isaiah 1:2 Acts 8:22 John 3:19-21 Isaiah 66:18 1 Samuel 15:26 Deuteronomy 32:1 Hosea 10:13 Proverbs 1:24-31 Jeremiah 4:4 Proverbs 15:26 Jeremiah 19:15 1 Samuel 15:23 John 12:48 Proverbs 28:9 Jeremiah 17:10 Isaiah 59:7 Micah 6:2 Hosea 4:6 Jeremiah 6:10 Deuteronomy 30:19 Deuteronomy 4:26 - 20 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.
- 21 Therefore thus saith : 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 : 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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- 23 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 .
- 24 We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble, Anguish hath taken hold of us, And pain, as of a woman in travail.’
- 25 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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Zechariah 12:10 Jeremiah 4:8 Lamentations 4:10 Lamentations 1:2 Lamentations 1:16 Jeremiah 9:17-22 Jeremiah 25:33-34 Jeremiah 14:17 Lamentations 4:6 Luke 7:12 Jeremiah 8:19 Jeremiah 9:10 Isaiah 32:11 Jeremiah 13:17 Jeremiah 12:12 Amos 8:10 Jeremiah 8:21 Jeremiah 4:11 James 4:9 Isaiah 30:13 Lamentations 4:3 Jeremiah 6:14 Micah 1:8-10 Ezekiel 27:30-31 James 5:1 Jeremiah 4:20 Lamentations 3:48 Ezekiel 7:16-18 Isaiah 22:12 Lamentations 2:11 Isaiah 22:4 Jeremiah 15:8 -
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I have made thee a tower and a fortress among My people; That thou mayest and try their way.
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- 28 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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- 30 Refuse silver shall men call them, Because hath rejected them.