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\c 6
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\v 1 Find safety, people of Benjamin, by leaving Jerusalem. Blow a trumpet in Tekoa.
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\q Raise up over Beth Hakerem a signal, since wickedness is appearing from the north; a great crushing is coming.
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\q
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\v 2 The daughter of Zion, the beautiful and delicate woman, will be destroyed.
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\q
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\v 3 The shepherds and their flocks will go to them;
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\q they will set up tents against her all around; each man will shepherd with his own hand.
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\q
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\v 4 The kings will say, "Prepare for battle with prayers and sacrifices. Arise, let us attack at noon.
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\q It is too bad that the daylight is fading away, that the evening shadows are falling.
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\q
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\v 5 But let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses."
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\q
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\v 6 For Yahweh of hosts says this: Cut her trees, and heap up siegeworks against Jerusalem.
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\q This is the right city to attack, because it is filled with oppression.
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\q
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\v 7 Just as a well keeps giving water, so this city keeps producing wickedness.
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\q Violence and disorder are heard in her. Suffering and plague are continually before me.
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\q
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\v 8 Accept discipline, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you
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\q and make you into a ruin, an uninhabited land.'"
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\q
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\v 9 Yahweh of hosts says this, "They will certainly glean those who are left in Israel like a vineyard.
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\q Reach out again with your hand to pick grapes from the vines.
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\q
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\v 10 To whom should I declare and warn so they will listen?
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\q Look! Their ears are uncircumcised; they are not able to pay attention!
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\q Look! The word of Yahweh has come to them to correct them, but they do not want it."
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\q
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\v 11 But I am filled with Yahweh's fury. I am tired of holding it in. He said, to me, "Pour it out on the children in the streets
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\q and on the groups of young men. For every man will be taken away with his wife;
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\q every old person together with every very aged person.
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\q
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\v 12 Their houses will be turned over to others, both their fields and their wives together.
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\q For I will attack the inhabitants of the land with my hand—this is Yahweh’s declaration—
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\q
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\v 13 for from their smallest to their greatest—each of them is greedy for dishonest gain.
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\q From the prophet to the priest—each of them acts deceitfully.
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\q
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\v 14 But they heal the brokenness of my people only lightly, when they say, ‘Peace! Peace!’ when there is no peace.
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\q
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\v 15 Were they ashamed when they committed abominations? They were not ashamed at all; they did not experience any humility.
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\q So they will fall with those who fall at the time that I punish them. They will be overthrown,” says Yahweh.
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\q
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\v 16 Yahweh says this, "Stand at the road crossing and look; ask for the ancient pathways.
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\q ‘Where is this good way?’ Then go on it and find a resting place for yourselves.
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\q But the people say, 'We will not go.'
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\q
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\v 17 I appointed for you watchmen to listen for the trumpet.
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\q But they said, 'We will not listen.'
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\q
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\v 18 Therefore, nations, listen! See, you witnesses, what will happen to them.
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\q
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\v 19 Hear, earth! See, I am about to bring disaster to this people—the fruit of their thoughts.
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\q They paid no attention to my word or law, but they instead rejected it."
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\q
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\v 20 "What does this frankincense going up from Sheba mean to me? Or these sweet smells from a distant land?
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\q Your burnt offerings are not acceptable to me, nor are your sacrifices.
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\q
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\v 21 So Yahweh says this, 'See, I am about to place a stumbling block against this people.
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\q They will stumble over it—fathers and sons together. Inhabitants and their neighbors will also perish.'
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\q
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\v 22 Yahweh says this, 'See, a people is coming from a northern land.
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\q For a great nation has been stirred up to come from a distant land.
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\q
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\v 23 They will pick up bows and spears. They are cruel and have no compassion. Their sound is like the sea roar,
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\q and they are riding on horses in formation as fighting men, daughter of Zion.'"
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\q
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\v 24 —We have heard the news about them. Our hands fall limp in distress. Anguish seizes us as a woman bearing a child.
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\q
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\q
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\v 25 Do not go out to the fields, and do not walk on the roads,
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\q for the swords of the enemy and terror are all around.
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\q
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\v 26 Daughter of my people, fasten on sackcloth and roll about in the dust of a funeral for an only child.
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\q Perform a bitter funeral for yourself, for the destroyer will come suddenly upon us.—
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\q
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\v 27 "I have made you, Jeremiah, one who tests my people like one would test metal, so you will inspect and test their ways.
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\q
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\v 28 They are all the most stubborn of people, who go about slandering others.
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\q All of them are bronze and iron, acting corruptly.
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\q
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\v 29 The bellows are scorched by the fire that is burning them; the lead is consumed in the flames.
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\q The refining continues among them, but it is uselss, because the evil is not removed.
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\q
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\v 30 They will be called rejected silver, for Yahweh has rejected them.”
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