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
“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the shofar in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.
2 [the] lovely and [the] to delight to resemble daughter Zion
I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.
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
Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”
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
“Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5 to arise: rise and to ascend: attack in/on/with night and to ruin citadel: fortress her
Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.”
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
For the LORD of Hosts said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is filled with oppression within herself.
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
As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.
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
Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”
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
The LORD of Hosts says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”
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
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the LORD’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
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
Therefore I am full of the LORD’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
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
Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.”
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
“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
14 and to heal [obj] breaking people my upon to lighten to/for to say peace peace and nothing peace
They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.
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
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says the LORD.
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
The LORD says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
17 and to arise: establish upon you to watch to listen to/for voice: sound trumpet and to say not to listen
I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the shofar!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’
18 to/for so to hear: hear [the] nation and to know congregation [obj] which in/on/with them
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
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
Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
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
To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
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 the LORD says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”
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
The LORD says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
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 take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”
24 to hear: hear [obj] report his to slacken hand our distress to strengthen: hold us agony like/as to beget
We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.
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
Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.
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
Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.
27 assayer to give: make you in/on/with people my fortification and to know and to test [obj] way: conduct their
“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.
28 all their to turn aside: turn aside to rebel to go: went slander bronze and iron all their to ruin they(masc.)
They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.
29 to scorch bellow (from fire complete *Q(K)*) lead to/for vanity: vain to refine to refine and bad: evil not to tear
The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.
30 silver: money to reject to call: call to to/for them for to reject LORD in/on/with them
Men will call them rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
