Jeremiah 6:9-15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁹ Thus says the Lord of hosts:
Glean^[a] thoroughly as a vine
    the remnant of Israel;
like a grape gatherer, pass your hand again
    over its branches.^(A)

¹⁰ To whom shall I speak and give warning,
    that they may hear?
See, their ears are closed;^[b]
    they cannot listen.
The word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
    they take no pleasure in it.^(B)
11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
    I am weary of holding it in.

Pour it out on the children in the street
    and on the gatherings of young men as well;
both husband and wife shall be taken,
    the elderly and those full of days.^(C)
12 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,
            says the Lord.^(D)

¹³ For from the least to the greatest of them,
    everyone is greedy for unjust gain;
and from prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.^(E)
14 They have treated the wound of my people carelessly,
    saying, “Peace, peace,”
    when there is no peace.^(F)
15 They acted shamefully; they committed abomination,
    yet they were not ashamed;
    they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
    at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
            says the Lord.