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Text -- Jeremiah 6:4-30 (NET)

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6:4 They will say, ‘Prepare to do battle against it! Come on! Let’s attack it at noon!’ But later they will say, ‘Oh, oh! Too bad! The day is almost over and the shadows of evening are getting long. 6:5 So come on, let’s go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.’ 6:6 All of this is because the Lord who rules over all has said: ‘Cut down the trees around Jerusalem and build up a siege ramp against its walls. This is the city which is to be punished. Nothing but oppression happens in it. 6:7 As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. All I see are sick and wounded people.’ 6:8 So take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust and make you desolate, a place where no one can live.” 6:9 This is what the Lord who rules over all said to me: “Those who remain in Israel will be like the grapes thoroughly gleaned from a vine. So go over them again, as though you were a grape harvester passing your hand over the branches one last time.” 6:10 I answered, “Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all. 6:11 I am as full of anger as you are, Lord, I am tired of trying to hold it in.” The Lord answered, “Vent it, then, on the children who play in the street and on the young men who are gathered together. Husbands and wives are to be included, as well as the old and those who are advanced in years. 6:12 Their houses will be turned over to others as will their fields and their wives. For I will unleash my power against those who live in this land,” says the Lord. 6:13 “That is because, from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all of them practice deceit. 6:14 They offer only superficial help for the harm my people have suffered. They say, ‘Everything will be all right!’ But everything is not all right! 6:15 Are they ashamed because they have done such shameful things? No, they are not at all ashamed. They do not even know how to blush! So they will die, just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them,” says the Lord. 6:16 The Lord said to his people: “You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls.” But they said, “We will not follow it!” 6:17 The Lord said, “I appointed prophets as watchmen to warn you, saying: ‘Pay attention to the warning sound of the trumpet!’” But they said, “We will not pay attention!” 6:18 So the Lord said, “Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people. 6:19 Hear this, you peoples of the earth: ‘Take note! I am about to bring disaster on these people. It will come as punishment for their scheming. For they have paid no attention to what I have said, and they have rejected my law. 6:20 I take no delight when they offer up to me frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet-smelling cane imported from a faraway land. I cannot accept the burnt offerings they bring me. I get no pleasure from the sacrifices they offer to me.’ 6:21 So, this is what the Lord says: ‘I will assuredly make these people stumble to their doom. Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. Friends and neighbors will die.’ 6:22 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Beware! An army is coming from a land in the north. A mighty nation is stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth. 6:23 Its soldiers are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on their horses. Lined up in formation like men going into battle to attack you, Daughter Zion.’” 6:24 The people cry out, “We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby! 6:25 Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere.” 6:26 So I said, “Oh, my dear people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with painful sobs as though you had lost your only child. For any moment now that destructive army will come against us.” 6:27 The Lord said to me, “I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave.” 6:28 I reported, “All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly. 6:29 The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged. 6:30 They are regarded as ‘rejected silver’ because the Lord rejects them.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Sheba son of Raamah son of Cush son of Ham son of Noah,son of Joktan of Shem,son of Jokshan son of Abraham and Keturah,a town that belonged to the tribe of Simeon,son of Bichri (Benjamin) who led a revolt against David,a country in southern Arabia whose queen visited Solomon (OS),son of Abihail; a founding father of one of the clans of Gad
 · Zion one of the hills on which Jerusalem was built; the temple area; the city of Jerusalem; God's people,a town and citidel; an ancient part of Jerusalem


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Israel | Sin | Wicked | Bellows | Impenitence | Silver | Frankincense | MINES, MINING | Call | Minister | War | Ashes | Repentance | Circumcision | Backsliders | REFINER; REFINING | Lead | REPROBATE | Calamus | TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT | more
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NET Notes: Jer 6:4 Heb “Woe to us!” For the usage of this phrase see the translator’s note on 4:13. The usage of this particle here is a little exagger...

NET Notes: Jer 6:6 Heb “All of it oppression in its midst.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:7 Heb “Sickness and wound are continually before my face.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:8 The wordplay begun with “sound…in Tekoa” in v. 1 and continued with “they will pitch” in v. 3 is concluded here with ...

NET Notes: Jer 6:9 Heb “Pass your hand back over the branches like a grape harvester.” The translation is intended to clarify the metaphor that Jeremiah shou...

NET Notes: Jer 6:10 Heb “They do not take pleasure in it.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:11 Heb “are to be captured.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:12 Heb “I will reach out my hand.” This figure involves both comparing God to a person (anthropomorphism) and substitution (metonymy) where h...

NET Notes: Jer 6:14 Heb “They say, ‘Peace! Peace!’ and there is no peace!”

NET Notes: Jer 6:15 Heb “They will fall among the fallen.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:16 Heb “the way of/to the good.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:17 Heb “Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet.” The word “warning” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

NET Notes: Jer 6:18 Heb “Know, congregation [or witness], what in [or against] them.” The meaning of this line is somewhat uncertain. The meaning of the noun ...

NET Notes: Jer 6:19 Heb “my word.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:20 Heb “Your burnt offerings are not acceptable and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.” “The shift from “your” to R...

NET Notes: Jer 6:21 The words “and fall to their destruction” are implicit in the metaphor and are supplied in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: Jer 6:22 Heb “people.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:23 Jerualem is personified as a young maiden helpless before enemy attackers.

NET Notes: Jer 6:24 Or “We have lost our strength to do battle”; Heb “Our hands hang limp [or helpless at our sides].” According to BDB 951 s.v. &...

NET Notes: Jer 6:25 Heb “Terror is all around!”

NET Notes: Jer 6:26 Heb “the destroyer.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:27 Heb “test their way.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:28 Or “arch rebels,” or “hardened rebels.” Literally “rebels of rebels.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:29 Heb “The refiner refines them in vain.”

NET Notes: Jer 6:30 This translation is intended to reflect the wordplay in the Hebrew text where the same root word is repeated in the two lines.

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