Jeremiah 6:9-21

New King James Version

“They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel;
As a grape-gatherer, put your hand back into the branches.”

¹⁰ To whom shall I speak and give warning,
That they may hear?
Indeed their ^(A)ear is uncircumcised,
And they cannot give heed.
Behold, ^(B)the word of the Lord is a reproach to them;
They have no delight in it.
¹¹ Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord.
^(C)I am weary of holding it in.
“I will pour it out ^(D)on the children outside,
And on the assembly of young men together;
For even the husband shall be taken with the wife,
The aged with him who is full of days.
¹² And ^(E)their houses shall be turned over to others,
Fields and wives together;
For I will stretch out My hand
Against the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord.
¹³ “Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Everyone is given to ^(F)covetousness;
And from the prophet even to the ^(G)priest,
Everyone deals falsely.
¹⁴ They have also ^(H)healed the ^[a]hurt of My people ^[b]slightly,
^(I)Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’
When there is no peace.
¹⁵ Were they ^(J)ashamed when they had committed abomination?
No! They were not at all ashamed;
Nor did they know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

“Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the ^(K)old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find ^(L)rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
¹⁷ Also, I set ^(M)watchmen over you, saying,
^(N)‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not listen.’
¹⁸ Therefore hear, you nations,
And know, O congregation, what is among them.
^19 (O)Hear, O earth!
Behold, I will certainly bring ^(P)calamity on this people—
^(Q)The fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not heeded My words
Nor My law, but rejected it.
^20 (R)For what purpose to Me
Comes frankincense ^(S)from Sheba,
And ^(T)sweet cane from a far country?
^(U)Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
Nor your sacrifices sweet to Me.”

“Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people,
And the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them.
The neighbor and his friend shall perish.”