Jeremiah · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Jeremiah 6 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
1 Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction.
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2 I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.
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3 The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.
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4 Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.
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5 Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.
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6 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.
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7 As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.
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8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.
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9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the remains of Israel, as in a vine, even to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a grape gatherer into the basket.
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10 To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall I testify, that he may hear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear: behold the word of the Lord is become unto them a reproach: and and they will not receive it.
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11 Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.
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12 And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands and their wives together: for I will stretch for my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
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13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.
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14 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.
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15 They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.
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16 Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see and ask for the old paths which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: we will not walk.
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17 And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken.
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18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great things I will do to them.
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19 Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.
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20 To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.
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21 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbor and kinsman shall perish.
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22 Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the north, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth.
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23 They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall mount upon horses, prepared as men for war, against thee, O daughter of Sion.
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24 We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labor.
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25 Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.
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26 Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
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27 I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know and prove their way.
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28 All of these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.
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29 The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.
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30 Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath 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 Nehemiah 3:14; Jeremiah 6:22; 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Chronicles 11:6; Judges 1:21
- 2 Jeremiah 4:31; Isaiah 1:8; Lamentations 2:13; Isaiah 3:16–17; Lamentations 2:1
- 3 Luke 19:43; Jeremiah 39:1–3; 2 Kings 24:10–12; 2 Kings 25:1–4; Nahum 3:18
- 4 Jeremiah 15:8; Zephaniah 2:4; Joel 3:9; Jeremiah 8:20; Song of Songs 2:17
- 5 Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 52:13; Hosea 8:14; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Jeremiah 9:21
- 6 Jeremiah 32:24; Deuteronomy 20:19–20
- 7 Ezekiel 7:23; Ezekiel 7:11; Jeremiah 20:8; Isaiah 57:20; James 3:10–12
- 8 Ezekiel 23:18; Hosea 9:12; Jeremiah 17:23; Jeremiah 35:13–15; Zephaniah 3:7
- 9 Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 16:16; Obadiah 5–6; Jeremiah 52:28–30; Revelation 14:18
- 10 Acts 7:51; Jeremiah 7:26; Hebrews 11:7; John 7:7; Exodus 6:12
- 11 Jeremiah 20:9; Jeremiah 9:21; Job 32:18–19; Micah 3:8; Acts 4:20
- 12 Jeremiah 8:10; Isaiah 5:25; Lamentations 3:3; Zephaniah 1:13; Lamentations 5:3
- 13 Jeremiah 23:11; Jeremiah 8:10; Micah 3:11; Jeremiah 22:17; Micah 3:2–3
- 14 Ezekiel 13:10; Jeremiah 23:17; Jeremiah 4:10; Lamentations 2:14; Jeremiah 14:13
- 15 Jeremiah 8:12; Matthew 15:14; Jeremiah 3:3; Philippians 3:19; Proverbs 29:1
- 16 Isaiah 30:21; Deuteronomy 32:7; Jeremiah 18:15; Matthew 11:28–29; Jeremiah 7:23
- 17 Jeremiah 25:4; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 21:11; Zechariah 7:11; Habakkuk 2:1
- 18 Psalm 50:4–6; Micah 6:5; Isaiah 5:3; Jeremiah 4:10; Deuteronomy 29:24–28
- 19 Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 8:9; Acts 8:22; Micah 6:2
- 20 Isaiah 1:11; Amos 5:21–22; Micah 6:6–8; Psalm 40:6; Psalm 50:7–13
- 21 Isaiah 8:14; Ezekiel 3:20; Jeremiah 13:16; Isaiah 9:14–17; Ezekiel 9:5–7
- 22 Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 50:41–43; Jeremiah 1:14–15; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 5:15
- 23 Isaiah 13:18; Jeremiah 50:42; Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 30:14; Ezekiel 23:22–25
- 24 Jeremiah 50:43; Jeremiah 49:24; Jeremiah 4:31; Isaiah 21:3; Jeremiah 4:19–21
- 25 Jeremiah 49:29; Jeremiah 14:18; Psalm 31:13; Jeremiah 20:10; Job 18:11
- 26 Zechariah 12:10; Jeremiah 4:8; Lamentations 4:6; Isaiah 30:13; Jeremiah 9:17–22
- 27 Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 15:20; Jeremiah 9:7; Ezekiel 3:8–10; Ezekiel 20:4
- 28 Jeremiah 9:4; Jeremiah 5:23; Jeremiah 18:18; Ezekiel 22:18–22; Revelation 19:2
- 29 Proverbs 17:3; Isaiah 49:4; 1 Peter 4:12; Zechariah 13:9; Ezekiel 24:13
- 30 Hosea 9:17; Isaiah 1:22; Psalm 119:119; Isaiah 1:25; Jeremiah 14:19
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