Jeremiah 6:9-15

Common English Bible

Unresponsive people

⁹This is what the Lord of heavenly forces says:
From top to bottom, let them harvest
    the remaining few in Israel.
        Pick clean every
        last grape on the vine!
¹⁰To whom can I speak and warn?
    How can I get someone’s attention?
        Their ears are shut tight,^[a]
        so they won’t hear.
They are ashamed of the Lord’s word
    and take no pleasure in it.
¹¹But I’m filled with the Lord’s rage
    and am tired of holding it in.

Pour it out on the children in the streets
    and on the youths gathered together;
    husband with wife will be trapped,
        as will those old and gray.
¹²Their homes will be turned over to others,
    their fields and wives as well.
I will stretch out my hand
    against the people of this land,
        declares the Lord.
¹³From the least to the greatest,
        each is eager to profit;
    from prophet to priest,
        each trades in dishonesty.
¹⁴They treat the wound of my people
    as if it were nothing:
“All is well, all is well,” they insist,
    when in fact nothing is well.
¹⁵They should be ashamed
    of their detestable practices,
    but they have no shame;
    they don’t even blush!
Therefore, they will fall among the fallen
    and stumble when I bring disaster,
        declares the Lord.