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Jeremiah 6:17

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.

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And the Lord hath sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending, and you have not hearkened nor inclined your ears to hear.

CRY, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings and the house of Jacob their sins.

But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.

The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

I will stand upon my watch, and fix my foot upon the tower: and I will watch, to see what will be said to me, and what I may answer to him that reproveth me.

His watchmen are all blind. They are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping, and loving dreams.

Obey your prelates, and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.

Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law.

Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, all the day and all the night: they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,

Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great things I will do to them.

And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God nor received instruction. Faith is lost and is taken away out of their mouth.

Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord.

Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? They have laid hold on lying and have refused to return.

And they said: We have no hopes, for we will go after our own thoughts and we will do every one according to the perverseness of his evil heart.

But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee, because they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.




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