{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/jeremiah/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T07:09:41.901Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Jeremiah","bookSlug":"jeremiah","chapter":6,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":52,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"They were confounded, because they commmitted 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. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great things I will do to them. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labor. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know and prove their way. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"All of these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed. "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Jeremiah 6 (DRB)","markdown":"[Jeremiah 6](https://primebible.com/drb/jeremiah/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/jeremiah/6 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}