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Jeremiah 6:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jeremiah 6:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Imminence and Horror of the Invasion
6 Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin,
from the midst of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem,
for evil looms out of the north
and great destruction.(A)
Jeremiah 8:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jeremiah 8:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 Why do we sit still?
Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
and has given us poisoned water to drink
because we have sinned against the Lord.(A)
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
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