Jeremiah 6:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ For thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Cut down her trees, and cast up a siege mound against Yerushalayim. She is the city to be punished, in whose midst there is only oppression.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For the Lord of hosts has said, Hew down her trees and cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city which must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

⁶ The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims: Cut down her trees, and build siege ramps against Jerusalem. This city must be held accountable, for there’s nothing but oppression in her midst.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For thus says the Lord of hosts: "Cut down her trees, and build a rampart around Jerusalem. This is the city of visitation! Every kind of false claim is in her midst.

Jeremiah 6:6 Cross References

Isaiah 37:33

“Therefore thus said יהוה  concerning the sovereign of Ashshur, ‘He does not come into this city, nor does he shoot an arrow there, nor does he come before it with shield, nor does he build a siege mound against it.

Jeremiah 20:8

For when I speak, I cry out, proclaiming violence and ruin. Because the word of יהוה  was made to me a reproach and a derision daily.

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

Jeremiah 32:24

‘See the siege mounds! They have come to the city to take it. And the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword and the scarcity of food and the pestilence. And what You have spoken has come about, and look, You see it!

Jeremiah 32:31

“For this city has been a cause for My displeasure and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day that I should remove it from before My face,

Jeremiah 33:4

“For thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 39:1

In the ninth year of Tsiḏ

Jeremiah 5:29

‘Would I not punish them for this?’ declares יהוה. ‘Would I not revenge Myself on such a nation as this?’

Jeremiah 5:9

“Would I not punish them for this?” declares יהוה. “And would I not revenge Myself on such a nation as this?

Ezekiel 4:2

and shall lay siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it, and set camps against it, and place battering rams against it all around.

Ezekiel 5:5

“Thus said the Master יהוה, ‘This is Yerushalayim which I have set in the midst of the gentiles, with the other lands all around her.

Daniel 11:15

“Then the sovereign of the North shall come in and build a siege mound, and capture a city of strongholds. And the arms of the South shall not stand, nor his choice people, for there is no strength to stand.

Zephaniah 3:1

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!

Luke 19:43

“Because days shall come upon you when your enemies shall build a rampart around you, and surround you and press you on all sides,