Jeremiah 6

Jeremiah 6:1

O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpets in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

O ye children of Benjamin, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, gather you together, and agree to flee out of that your city; and give warning to Tekoa, to do the like; and set your beacons on fire in Beth-haccerem; that all may understand, that the enemy is coming down against you, out of Chaldea, with great fury and violence.

Jeremiah 6:3

The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her.

The great leaders of those northern people, with their troops, shall come before Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 6:4

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

Then shall the eager and furious commanders say, Hasten your preparations against her: arise, let us take the day before us: the time flees away; the evening hastens on; let no minutes be lost for our assault.

Jeremiah 6:9

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.

They shall make an exquisite dispatch of the inhabitants; as the vine-gatherer, when he hath pulled off the most remarkable clusters, goes over the tree again, and gleans those bunches that remained; so shall the Chaldean enemies search for the remainders of the Jews, escaped in the first destruction.

Jeremiah 6:11

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding it: I will pour it out upon the children abroad.

Therefore, I neither may nor can contain myself from breaking forth into the expressions of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding it in: I will freely declare and denounce it amongst you, &c.

Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Instead of seasonable and conscionable reproofs, they have gone about to salve up the spiritual sores of my people, with flattering and plausible words; saying, Peace, peace, all shall be well; when there is nothing but fear and danger.

Jeremiah 6:17

Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

At least, if ye will not hear my prophets, yet hearken to the sound of the trumpet, which tells you of the approach of the enemy; but they wilfully said, We will not hearken.

Jeremiah 6:20

To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, &c.?

To what purpose do ye think to please me with sweet incense and perfumes, coming afar off from Sheba, offered on my altars?

Jeremiah 6:21

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.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will prepare and lay before this people means of ruin and subversion, by which, both the fathers and children shall perish together.

Jeremiah 6:22

Behold, a people cometh from the north, &c.

See chapter i. verse 14. and chapter ii. verse 15. and chapter iv. verse 7.

Jeremiah 6:27

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

As for thee, O my prophet, I have set thee as in a watchtower, to descry the ways of my people; yea, I have made thee as a strong tower and fortress, against all the rage of them: so that thou mayst fearlessly discover, and reprove them.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

Whereas they pretend to be of the best metal, gold or silver; they are indeed no better than brass and iron: they are all but falsifiers and corrupters.

Jeremiah 6:29

The bellows are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away.

Whereas we went about to melt them, under that pretence of pure silver, the labour is lost; the bellows are burnt; that lead, which is mixed to make it run, is consumed of the fire: the founder trieth to melt it in vain; for that wickedness, which is in them, is tough and unremoveable.

Jeremiah 6:30

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

If they will needs therefore go for silver, let them do so; but they shall then go for such silver as they are, reprobate and drossy; for, however they are reputed amongst men, God hath rejected them.