Jeremiah 6:6-15

English Standard Version

⁶For thus says the Lord of hosts:
^(A)“Cut down her trees;
    ^(B)cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem.
This is the city that must be ^(C)punished;
    there is nothing but oppression within her.
⁷^(D)As a well keeps its water fresh,
    so she keeps fresh her evil;
^(E)violence and destruction are heard within her;
    sickness and wounds are ever before me.
⁸Be warned, O Jerusalem,
    ^(F)lest I turn from you in disgust,
lest I make you ^(G)a desolation,
    an uninhabited land.”

⁹Thus says the Lord of hosts:
^(H)“They shall glean thoroughly as a vine
    the remnant of Israel;
like a grape gatherer pass your hand again
    over its branches.”
¹⁰^(I)To whom shall I speak and give warning,
    that they may hear?
^(J)Behold, their ears are uncircumcised,
    ^(K)they cannot listen;
behold, ^(L)the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
    they take no pleasure in it.
¹¹Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
    ^(M)I am weary of holding it in.
^(N)“Pour it out upon the children in the street,
    and upon the gatherings of young men, also;
^(O)both husband and wife ^(P)shall be taken,
    the elderly and the very aged.
¹²^(Q)Their houses shall be turned over to others,
    their fields and wives together,
for I will stretch out my hand
    against the inhabitants of the land,”
declares the Lord.
¹³^(R)“For from the least to the greatest of them,
    everyone ^(S)is greedy for unjust gain;
and from ^(T)prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.
¹⁴They have healed the wound of my people lightly,
    saying, ^(U)‘Peace, peace,’
    ^(V)when there is no peace.
¹⁵^(W)Were they ashamed when they committed abomination?
    No, they were not at all ashamed;
    they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
    ^(X)at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,”
says the Lord.