Jeremiah 6
1 to seek refuge son: descendant/people Benjamin from entrails: among Jerusalem and in/on/with Tekoa to blow trumpet and upon Beth-haccherem Beth-haccherem to lift: raise tribute for distress: harm to look from north and breaking great: large
“You people in Jerusalem who are from [the tribe of] Benjamin, flee from this city! Blow the trumpets in Tekoa [city south of Jerusalem]! Send up a [smoke] signal in Beth-Haccherem [town] [to warn the people of the coming danger]! A powerful [army] will come from the north, and they will cause great destruction.
2 [the] lovely and [the] to delight to resemble daughter Zion
Jerusalem is [like] a beautiful pasture [full of sheep], but it will soon be destroyed.
3 to(wards) her to come (in): come to pasture and flock their to blow upon her tent around to pasture man: anyone [obj] hand: monument his
[Enemy kings, not] shepherds [MET], will come [with their armies] and set up their tents around the city, and each [king will choose a part of the city for his soldiers to destroy like] [MET] shepherds divide their pastures for their flocks of sheep.
4 to consecrate: prepare upon her battle to arise: rise and to ascend: attack in/on/with midday woe! to/for us for to turn [the] day for to stretch shadow evening
[The kings will tell their troops], “Get ready for the battle. We should attack them before noontime. But [if we arrive there late in the afternoon] when the shadows are becoming long,
5 to arise: rise and to ascend: attack in/on/with night and to ruin citadel: fortress her
we will attack them at night and tear down their fortresses.”
6 for thus to say LORD Hosts to cut: cut tree and to pour: build siege mound upon Jerusalem mound he/she/it [the] city to reckon: punish all her oppression in/on/with entrails: among her
Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, says this: “[I will command those soldiers to] cut down the trees [outside Jerusalem] and to build dirt ramps up to the top of the city walls [in order that they can enter the city]. This city must be punished because everyone there continually oppresses others.
7 like/as to cool (well *Q(K)*) water her so to cool distress: evil her violence and violence to hear: hear in/on/with her upon face my continually sickness and wound
[It is as though] the wicked things that the people do pour out of the city like [SIM] water flows out of a spring. [The noise from people doing] violent and destructive actions is heard everywhere. I continually see [people who are] suffering and wounded.
8 to discipline Jerusalem lest to dislocate/hang soul: myself my from you lest to set: make you devastation land: country/planet not to dwell
Listen to what I am warning you, [you people of] [APO] Jerusalem, because if you do not listen, I will reject you and cause your land to become desolate, a land where no one lives.”
9 thus to say LORD Hosts to glean to glean like/as vine remnant Israel to return: again hand your like/as to gather/restrain/fortify upon branch
Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, also says this: “[I will tell your enemies] to cause your country to become as desolate [SIM] as a vineyard from which all the grapes have been completely stripped from the vines. [Their soldiers will seize the possessions of] those who remain in Israel [after the others have been exiled] like [SIM] farmers go to the vines again to pick any grapes [that were (left/not picked)].”
10 upon who? to speak: speak and to testify and to hear: hear behold uncircumcised ear their and not be able to/for to listen behold word LORD to be to/for them to/for reproach not to delight in in/on/with him
[Then I said, “If I speak to the Israeli people] to warn them, (who will listen to me?/No one will listen to me.) [RHQ] [It is as though] their ears are closed, [and as a result] they cannot hear [what I say]. They scorn Yahweh’s messages; they do not want to listen to them at all.
11 and with rage LORD to fill be weary to sustain to pour: pour upon infant in/on/with outside and upon counsel youth together for also man: husband with woman: wife to capture old with full day: old
So [now] I am extremely angry, like Yahweh is angry, and I cannot restrain it any longer.” [So] Yahweh said [to me], “Tell everyone that you are very angry with them. Tell the children in the streets and the young men who gather together. Tell the men and their wives; tell the very old people [DOU], also.
12 and to turn: repell house: home their to/for another land: country and woman: wife together for to stretch [obj] hand my upon to dwell [the] land: country/planet utterance LORD
[Tell the men that] I will give their houses to [their enemies], and I will give their property/fields and their wives to them, also, when I punish [IDM] the people who live in this land.
13 for from small their and till great: large their all his to cut off: to gain unjust-gain and from prophet and till priest all his to make: do deception
Everyone is trying to get money by tricking others, from the most [important people] to the least [important people]; even the prophets and the priests are trying to deceive [people to get money].
14 and to heal [obj] breaking people my upon to lighten to/for to say peace peace and nothing peace
[They act as though the sins of my people are like] [MET] small wounds that they do not need to put bandages on. They continually [greet people by] saying ‘I hope things are going well with you,’ when things are not going well.
15 be ashamed for abomination to make also be ashamed not be ashamed also be humiliated not to know to/for so to fall: kill in/on/with to fall: kill in/on/with time to reckon: punish them to stumble to say LORD
They should be [RHQ] ashamed about the disgusting things that they do, but they are not ashamed at all. They do not [even] know how to (blush/show on their faces that they are ashamed). So, they also will be among those who will be killed. They will be destroyed when I punish them.”
16 thus to say LORD to stand: stand upon way: road and to see: see and to ask to/for path forever: antiquity where? this way: road [the] pleasant and to go: walk in/on/with her and to find rest to/for soul your and to say not to go: walk
This is [also] what Yahweh said [to the Israeli people]: “Stand at the crossroads and look [at the people who pass by]. Ask them what was the good behavior [that their ancestors had] long ago. [And when they tell you], behave that way. If you do that, you will find rest for your souls.” But you replied, ‘We do not want to do that!’
17 and to arise: establish upon you to watch to listen to/for voice: sound trumpet and to say not to listen
I sent [my prophets who were like] [MET] watchmen. They said, ‘Listen carefully when we blow the trumpets [to warn you that your enemies are approaching],’ but you said, ‘[No], we do not want to listen.’
18 to/for so to hear: hear [the] nation and to know congregation [obj] which in/on/with them
Therefore, you people in the other nations, listen to this: Pay attention to what is going to happen to the [Israeli people].
19 to hear: hear [the] land: country/planet behold I to come (in): bring distress: harm to(wards) [the] people [the] this fruit plot their for upon word my not to listen and instruction my and to reject in/on/with her
Listen, all of you! I am going to cause the [Israeli] people to experience disasters. That is what will happen to them because they have refused to listen to what I told them. They have refused to obey my laws.
20 to/for what? this to/for me frankincense from Sheba to come (in): come and branch: stem [the] pleasant from land: country/planet distance burnt offering your not to/for acceptance and sacrifice your not to please to/for me
[You Israeli people], when you burn frankincense that came from [far away in] Sheba, and [when you offer to me] sweet-smelling anointing oil that came from far away, I will not [RHQ] be pleased with your sacrifices. I will not accept the sacrifices that are completely burned on the altar; I am not pleased with [any of] your sacrifices.
21 to/for so thus to say LORD look! I to give: put to(wards) [the] people [the] this stumbling and to stumble in/on/with them father and son: child together neighboring and neighbor his (and to perish *Q(K)*)
Therefore, I will put obstacles on the roads on which my people will travel. Men and their sons and people’s neighbors and friends will stumble over those obstacles and fall down; everyone will die.”
22 thus to say LORD behold people to come (in): come from land: country/planet north and nation great: large to rouse from flank land: country/planet
Yahweh [also] says this: “You will see a [huge] army marching [towards you] from the north. [An army of] a great nation very far away is preparing [to attack you].
23 bow and javelin to strengthen: hold cruel he/she/it and not to have compassion voice: sound their like/as sea to roar and upon horse to ride to arrange like/as man to/for battle upon you daughter Zion
They have bows [and arrows] and spears; they are [very] cruel, and do not act mercifully [to anyone]. As they ride along on their horses, the horses’ feet sound like the roaring of the ocean [waves]; they are riding in battle formation to attack you people of Jerusalem.”
24 to hear: hear [obj] report his to slacken hand our distress to strengthen: hold us agony like/as to beget
[The people of Jerusalem say], “We have heard reports about the enemy; [so] we are very frightened, with the result that we feel weak. We are very afraid, and worried, like [SIM] women who are about to give birth to babies.
25 not (to come out: come *Q(K)*) [the] land: country and in/on/with way: road not (to go: walk *Q(K)*) for sword to/for enemy terror from around: side
[So one person says to another], ‘Do not go out into the fields! Do not go on the roads, because the enemy [soldiers] have swords [and they are everywhere]; they are coming from all directions, and we are extremely afraid.’”
26 daughter people my to gird sackcloth and to wallow in/on/with ashes mourning only to make to/for you mourning bitterness for suddenly to come (in): come [the] to ruin upon us
[So I say], “My dear people, put on (sackcloth/rough clothes) and sit in ashes [to show that you are sorry for your sins]. Mourn and cry very much, like [SIM] [a woman would cry] if her only son had died, because your enemies are very near, and they are going to destroy [everything].”
27 assayer to give: make you in/on/with people my fortification and to know and to test [obj] way: conduct their
[Then Yahweh said to me], “[Jeremiah], I have caused you to become [like] [MET] someone who heats metal very hot [to completely burn the impurities]. You will examine my people’s behavior.
28 all their to turn aside: turn aside to rebel to go: went slander bronze and iron all their to ruin they(masc.)
You will find out that they are very stubborn rebels, they are always slandering others. [Their inner beings] are as hard as bronze or iron; they all [continually] deceive others.
29 to scorch bellow (from fire complete *Q(K)*) lead to/for vanity: vain to refine to refine and bad: evil not to tear
[A metalworker causes] the bellows to blow very hard to [make the fire very hot to] completely burn up the impurities [MET]. [But just as] a fire does not cause all the waste material to run off, it is impossible to separate [the righteous people from the wicked people, and punish only] the wicked people.
30 silver: money to reject to call: call to to/for them for to reject LORD in/on/with them
[I], Yahweh, have rejected them; I say that they are [like] [MET] worthless silver.”
