Jeremiah 6:16-21
1599 Geneva Bible
16 Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the ways and behold, and ask for the [a]old way, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.
17 Also I set [b]watchmen over you, which said, Take heed to the sound of the trumpet: but they said, We will not take heed.
18 Hear therefore, ye [c]Gentiles, and thou Congregation know, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth, behold, I will cause a plague to come upon this people, even the fruit of their own imaginations: because they have not taken heed unto my words, nor to my Law, but cast it off.
20 To what purpose bringest thou me [d]incense from Sheba, and sweet calamus from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not pleasant, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them: the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
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- Jeremiah 6:16 Wherein the Patriarchs and Prophets walked, directed by the word of God: signifying that there is no true way, but that which God prescribeth.
- Jeremiah 6:17 Prophets which should warn you of the dangers that were at hand.
- Jeremiah 6:18 God taketh all the world to witness, and the insensible creatures, of the ingratitude of the Jews.
- Jeremiah 6:20 Read Isa. 1:11 and Amos 5:21.
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