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Jeremiah 6 Brenton's English Septuagint

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  • OT: Septuagint (Greek)
  • Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament)
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  • 1844
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Jeremiah is not in PT1904.

Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
1 Strengthen yourselves, ye children of Benjamin, [to flee] out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and set up a signal over Bæthacharma: for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming.
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2 And [thy] pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away.
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3 The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about, and shall feed [their flocks] each with his hand.
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4 Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.
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5 Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
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6 For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; [there is] all oppression in her.
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7 As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, [as] continually before her.
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8 Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.
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9 For thus saith the Lord, Glean, glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back [your hands] as a grape-gatherer to his basket.
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10 To whom shall I speak, and testify, that he may hearken? behold, thine ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear: behold, the word of the Lord is become to them a reproach, they will not at all desire it.
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11 And I allowed my wrath to come to the full, yet I kept [it] in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.
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12 And their houses shall be turned to others, [with] their fields and their wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of this land, saith the Lord.
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13 For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all wrought falsely.
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14 And they healed the breach of my people [imperfectly], making light [of it], and saying, Peace, peace: and where is peace?
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15 They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are [truly] ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they [utterly] fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.
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16 Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in them].
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17 I have set watchmen over you, [saying], Hear ye the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear [it].
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18 Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.
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19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon this people, [even] the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded my words, and they have rejected my law.
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20 Wherefore do ye bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole-burnt-offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.
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21 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I [will] bring weakness upon this people, and the fathers and sons shall be weak together; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
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22 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people comes from the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.
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23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; [the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against thee as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Sion.
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24 We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
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25 Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.
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26 O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle [thyself] with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, [as] the mourning for a beloved [son]: for misery will come suddenly upon you.
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27 I have caused thee to be tried among tried nations, and thou shalt know me when I have tried their way.
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28 [They are] all disobedient, walking perversely: [they are] brass and iron; they are all corrupted.
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29 The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed: the silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.
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30 Call ye them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.
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Cross references (30)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Nehemiah 3:14; Jeremiah 6:22; 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Chronicles 11:6; Judges 1:21
  2. 2 Jeremiah 4:31; Isaiah 1:8; Lamentations 2:13; Isaiah 3:16–17; Lamentations 2:1
  3. 3 Luke 19:43; Jeremiah 39:1–3; 2 Kings 24:10–12; 2 Kings 25:1–4; Nahum 3:18
  4. 4 Jeremiah 15:8; Zephaniah 2:4; Joel 3:9; Jeremiah 8:20; Song of Songs 2:17
  5. 5 Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 52:13; Hosea 8:14; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Jeremiah 9:21
  6. 6 Jeremiah 32:24; Deuteronomy 20:19–20
  7. 7 Ezekiel 7:23; Ezekiel 7:11; Jeremiah 20:8; Isaiah 57:20; James 3:10–12
  8. 8 Ezekiel 23:18; Hosea 9:12; Jeremiah 17:23; Jeremiah 35:13–15; Zephaniah 3:7
  9. 9 Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 16:16; Obadiah 5–6; Jeremiah 52:28–30; Revelation 14:18
  10. 10 Acts 7:51; Jeremiah 7:26; Hebrews 11:7; John 7:7; Exodus 6:12
  11. 11 Jeremiah 20:9; Jeremiah 9:21; Job 32:18–19; Micah 3:8; Acts 4:20
  12. 12 Jeremiah 8:10; Isaiah 5:25; Lamentations 3:3; Zephaniah 1:13; Lamentations 5:3
  13. 13 Jeremiah 23:11; Jeremiah 8:10; Micah 3:11; Jeremiah 22:17; Micah 3:2–3
  14. 14 Ezekiel 13:10; Jeremiah 23:17; Jeremiah 4:10; Lamentations 2:14; Jeremiah 14:13
  15. 15 Jeremiah 8:12; Matthew 15:14; Jeremiah 3:3; Philippians 3:19; Proverbs 29:1
  16. 16 Isaiah 30:21; Deuteronomy 32:7; Jeremiah 18:15; Matthew 11:28–29; Jeremiah 7:23
  17. 17 Jeremiah 25:4; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 21:11; Zechariah 7:11; Habakkuk 2:1
  18. 18 Psalm 50:4–6; Micah 6:5; Isaiah 5:3; Jeremiah 4:10; Deuteronomy 29:24–28
  19. 19 Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 8:9; Acts 8:22; Micah 6:2
  20. 20 Isaiah 1:11; Amos 5:21–22; Micah 6:6–8; Psalm 40:6; Psalm 50:7–13
  21. 21 Isaiah 8:14; Ezekiel 3:20; Jeremiah 13:16; Isaiah 9:14–17; Ezekiel 9:5–7
  22. 22 Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 50:41–43; Jeremiah 1:14–15; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 5:15
  23. 23 Isaiah 13:18; Jeremiah 50:42; Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 30:14; Ezekiel 23:22–25
  24. 24 Jeremiah 50:43; Jeremiah 49:24; Jeremiah 4:31; Isaiah 21:3; Jeremiah 4:19–21
  25. 25 Jeremiah 49:29; Jeremiah 14:18; Psalm 31:13; Jeremiah 20:10; Job 18:11
  26. 26 Zechariah 12:10; Jeremiah 4:8; Lamentations 4:6; Isaiah 30:13; Jeremiah 9:17–22
  27. 27 Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 15:20; Jeremiah 9:7; Ezekiel 3:8–10; Ezekiel 20:4
  28. 28 Jeremiah 9:4; Jeremiah 5:23; Jeremiah 18:18; Ezekiel 22:18–22; Revelation 19:2
  29. 29 Proverbs 17:3; Isaiah 49:4; 1 Peter 4:12; Zechariah 13:9; Ezekiel 24:13
  30. 30 Hosea 9:17; Isaiah 1:22; Psalm 119:119; Isaiah 1:25; Jeremiah 14:19

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 6:20 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter XVII)

    Your whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices are not acceptable to Me;" He proceeds: "Hear the word of the Lord, all Judah.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)