Jeremiah 6:1-8
1599 Geneva Bible
6 1 The coming of the Assyrians and Chaldeans. 16 He exhorteth the Jews to repentance.
1 O ye children of [a]Benjamin, prepare to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in [b]Tekoa: set up a standard upon [c]Beth-Haccerem: for a plague appeareth out of the North and great destruction.
2 I have compared the daughter of Zion to [d]a beautiful and dainty woman.
3 The Pastors with their flocks [e]shall come unto her: they shall pitch their tents round about by her, and everyone shall feed in his place.
4 [f]Prepare war against her: arise, and let us go up toward the South: woe unto us: for the day declineth, and the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and destroy her palaces.
6 For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew down wood, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this city must be visited; all oppression is in the midst of it.
7 As the fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her malice; [g]cruelty and spoil is continually heard in her before me, with sorrow and strokes.
8 Be thou instructed, O [h]Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate as a land that none inhabiteth.
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- Jeremiah 6:1 He speaketh to them chiefly because they should take heed by the example of their brethren, the other half of their tribe, which were now carried away prisoners.
- Jeremiah 6:1 Which was a city in Judah, six miles from Bethlehem, 2 Chron. 11:6.
- Jeremiah 6:1 Read Neh. 3:14.
- Jeremiah 6:2 I have entreated her gently, and given her abundance of all things.
- Jeremiah 6:3 She shall be so destroyed; that the sheep may be fed in her.
- Jeremiah 6:4 He speaketh this in the person of the Babylonians, which complain that the time faileth them before they have brought their enterprises to pass.
- Jeremiah 6:7 He showeth the cause why it should be destroyed, and how it cometh of themselves.
- Jeremiah 6:8 He warneth them to amend by his correction, and turn to him by repentance.
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