10 Who can I speak to and give such a warning[a]
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,[b](A)
so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.(B)
11 But I am full of the Lord’s wrath;
I am tired of holding it back.(C)
Pour it out on the children in the street,(D)
on the gang of young men as well.
For both husband and wife will be captured,
the old with the very old.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:10 Or and bear witness
  2. Jeremiah 6:10 They are unresponsive to God.
  3. Jeremiah 6:11 Lit with fullness of days

If I say, “I won’t mention Him
or speak any longer in His name,”
His message becomes a fire burning in my heart,(A)
shut up in my bones.
I become tired of holding it in,
and I cannot prevail.

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