The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Sentinel, what of the night? Sentinel, what of the night?”
Jeremiah 6:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Also I raised up sentinels for you: “Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!” But they said, “We will not give heed.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hear and obey the sound of the trumpet! But they said, We will not listen or obey. American Standard Version (1901) And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken. Common English Bible Still, I have appointed watchmen to warn you. But you said, “We won’t listen!” Catholic Public Domain Version And I appointed watchers over you, saying: 'Listen for the sound of the trumpet.' And they said: 'We will not listen.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken. |
The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Sentinel, what of the night? Sentinel, what of the night?”
Israel’s sentinels are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Shout out; do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.
Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted sentinels; all day and all night they shall never be silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest,
But they say, “It is no use! We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil will.”
And though the Lord persistently sent you all his servants the prophets, you have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
You shall say to them: This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual faithlessness? They have held fast to deceit; they have refused to return.
But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me, because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.
Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have broken my covenant and transgressed my law.
I will stand at my watchpost and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say to me and what he will answer concerning my complaint.
Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or heed me, says the Lord.
But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with sighing, for that would be harmful to you.