Jeremiah_Chapter 6
Flee out of Jerusalem, O people of Benjamin, and blow the horn in Tikoa and set up the banner in Bethhachirim. Because there are disasters and great destruction looking from the north.
I will cut off the beautiful and delicate daughter of Zion.
The shepherds will bring their flocks to her and set up tents around her, each in their own territory to feed their sheep.
You need to prepare to attack her. Get up, we can go up at noon. Alas. The sun has gradually tilted, and the evening shadows have dragged on.
Get up, let’s go up at night and destroy her palace.
For thus says the Lord of hosts, Cut down trees and build a fortress against Jerusalem. This is the city that deserves punishment, full of oppression.
No matter how well gushes out water, this city also gushes out evil. During this time, I often hear of violence and destruction, and the sick and wounded are always before me.
Jerusalem, teach me, so that my heart may not be estranged from you, so that I may make you desolate and a place without a dwelling place.
The Lord of hosts has said, ‘The enemy will plunder all the remaining people of Israel, just like picking grapes.’. You have to pick grapes like a grape picker, picking them again and then putting them back in the basket.
Now to whom can I speak as a witness, so that they may hear? Their ears have not been cut off and they cannot hear. See, the word of the Lord is shameful to them and not pleasing.
Therefore, I am filled with the wrath of the Lord, unable to bear it. I will lean on the children in the streets and the young people who gather together, even my husband and wife, and the elderly and those who are satisfied with their days will be captured.
Their houses, fields, and wives will all be turned over to others. I will reach out and attack the residents of this area. This is what the Lord has said.
Because they are all greedy from the smallest to the greatest, and from prophets to priests, they all act falsely.
They gently and suddenly heal the wounds of my people, saying, Peace. It’s safe now. Actually, there is no peace.
Do they feel ashamed of their heinous actions? Otherwise, they are not ashamed or ashamed. Therefore, they will fall among those who fall. When I punish them, they will fall. This is what the Lord has said.
This is what the Lord says: Stand on the road and examine, and search for the ways of the past. What is the good way? Walk in it. In this way, your hearts will rest. But they said, We cannot be in between.
I have set up watchmen to take care of you, saying, Listen to the sound of the horn. But they said, we don’t listen.
O nations, therefore listen. O congregation, know what will happen to them.
Di Ah, listen carefully. I will bring disaster upon this people, the fruit of their thoughts. Because they did not obey my words, and as for my law, they also despised it.
What profit does frankincense from Sheba and sugarcane from afar bring to me? Your burnt offerings will not be accepted. I am not pleased with your peace offering.
Therefore thus says the Lord, I will set a stumbling block before this people. Father and son will fall on it together. Neighbors and friends have also perished.
This is what the Lord says: “See, there is a people coming from the north, and a great nation stirred up from the ends of the earth.”.
They hold bows and guns, have a cruel temperament, and do not show mercy. Their voices sound like waves?? Roam. O daughter of Zion, they ride horses and set up their procession, as the people of the battlefield will attack you.
We heard their rumors and our hands became weak. Pain captures us, like a woman in labor.
Do not go into the fields, nor walk on the road, because there are enemies’ swords and terror around.
O daughter of the people, let me gird my waist with linen cloth and roll in ashes. You should be sad, like the mournful cry of losing your only child, because the destroyer will suddenly come to us.
I will make you a high platform among my people, a fortress or a testing ground, so that you may know how to test their actions.
They are all extremely rebellious, traveling between slanderers. They are both copper and iron, they are all bad things.
The bellows blew fire and the lead was burned. They practiced and refined in vain. Because the bad ones have not been eliminated yet.
People will call them abandoned silver slag, because the Lord has abandoned them.
