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Jeremiah 6:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

8 Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

8 Be corrected, reformed, instructed, and warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated and parted from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.

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American Standard Version (1901)

8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

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Common English Bible

8 Hear me out, Jerusalem, or else I’ll turn away from you and reduce you to ruins, a land unfit to live in.

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Catholic Public Domain Version

8 O Jerusalem, accept instruction, lest perhaps my soul may withdraw from you; lest perhaps I may set you in a desert, in an uninhabitable land."

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Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.

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Jeremiah 6:8
23 Cross References  

Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.


For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.


Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O Lord, and whom thou dost teach out of thy law


Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.


Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.


Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.


The lions have roared against him, they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.


For after I had turned away I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’


They have turned to me their back and not their face; and though I have taught them persistently they have not listened to receive instruction.


O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?


Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.”


And 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.


And I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.


I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”


When she carried on her harlotry so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.


For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’


Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!


“Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.


I said, ‘Surely she will fear me, she will accept correction; she will not lose sight of all that I have enjoined upon her.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.”


If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end!


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