Jeremiah, Chapter 6, verses 22-30

²² Thus says the LORD,“Behold, a people is coming from the north land,
And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.

²³“They seize bow and spear;
They are cruel and have no mercy;
Their voice roars like the sea,
And they ride on horses,
Arrayed as a man for the battle
Against you, O daughter of Zion!”

²⁴We have heard the report of it;
Our hands are limp.
Anguish has seized us,
Pain as of a woman in childbirth.

²⁵Do not go out into the field
And do not walk on the road,
For the enemy has a sword,
Terror is on every side.

²⁶O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
And roll in ashes;
^sMourn as for an only son,
A lamentation most bitter.
For suddenly the destroyer
Will come upon us.

²⁷ “I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people,That you may know and assay their way.”

²⁸All of them are stubbornly rebellious,
Going about as a talebearer.
They are bronze and iron;
They, all of them, are corrupt.

²⁹The bellows blow fiercely,
The lead is consumed by the fire;
In vain the refining goes on,
But the wicked are not^tseparated.

³⁰They call them rejected silver,
Because the LORD has rejected them.


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