{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "jeremiah", "chapter": 6 }, "data": { "n": 6, "bookSlug": "jeremiah", "bookCode": "JER", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "JER-6:1", "verseRef": "Jer.6.1", "text": "Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "JER-6:2", "verseRef": "Jer.6.2", "text": "The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "JER-6:3", "verseRef": "Jer.6.3", "text": "Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JER-6:4", "verseRef": "Jer.6.4", "text": "Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JER-6:5", "verseRef": "Jer.6.5", "text": "Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JER-6:6", "verseRef": "Jer.6.6", "text": "For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JER-6:7", "verseRef": "Jer.6.7", "text": "As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JER-6:8", "verseRef": "Jer.6.8", "text": "Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JER-6:9", "verseRef": "Jer.6.9", "text": "Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JER-6:10", "verseRef": "Jer.6.10", "text": "To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is become unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JER-6:11", "verseRef": "Jer.6.11", "text": "Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JER-6:12", "verseRef": "Jer.6.12", "text": "And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JER-6:13", "verseRef": "Jer.6.13", "text": "For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JER-6:14", "verseRef": "Jer.6.14", "text": "They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JER-6:15", "verseRef": "Jer.6.15", "text": "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JER-6:16", "verseRef": "Jer.6.16", "text": "Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein]." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JER-6:17", "verseRef": "Jer.6.17", "text": "And I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JER-6:18", "verseRef": "Jer.6.18", "text": "Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JER-6:19", "verseRef": "Jer.6.19", "text": "Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JER-6:20", "verseRef": "Jer.6.20", "text": "To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JER-6:21", "verseRef": "Jer.6.21", "text": "Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JER-6:22", "verseRef": "Jer.6.22", "text": "Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JER-6:23", "verseRef": "Jer.6.23", "text": "They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JER-6:24", "verseRef": "Jer.6.24", "text": "We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JER-6:25", "verseRef": "Jer.6.25", "text": "Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "JER-6:26", "verseRef": "Jer.6.26", "text": "O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "JER-6:27", "verseRef": "Jer.6.27", "text": "I have made thee a trier [and] a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "JER-6:28", "verseRef": "Jer.6.28", "text": "They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "JER-6:29", "verseRef": "Jer.6.29", "text": "The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "JER-6:30", "verseRef": "Jer.6.30", "text": "Refuse silver shall men them, because Jehovah hath rejected them." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/jeremiah/chapters/6", "book": "/v1/library/books/jeremiah/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/jeremiah/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }