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Jeremiah 6:17

The Scriptures 1998

“And I raised up watchmen over you, and said, ‘Listen to the sound of the ram’s horn!’ But they said, ‘We do not listen.’

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The message concerning Dumah. He calls to me out of Sĕ

His watchmen are blind, all of them, they have not known. All of them are dumb dogs, unable to bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

“Cry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression, and the house of Yaʽ

I have set watchmen on your walls, O Yerushalayim, all the day and all the night, continually, who are not silent. You who remember יהוה, give yourselves no rest,

But they shall say, “It is no use! For we walk according to our own plans, and we do each one the stubbornness of his evil heart.”

“Moreover, יהוה  has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

“Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is upon them!

“But you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that did not obey the voice of יהוה  their Elohim, nor did they accept instruction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

“Why then has this people, Yerushalayim, turned away in a continual backsliding? They cling to deceit, they refuse to turn back.

“But the house of Yisra’ĕ

“Put the ram’s horn to your mouth, like an eagle against the House of יהוה, because they have transgressed My covenant, and they have rebelled against My Torah.

I stand at my watch, and station myself on the watch-tower, and wait to see what He says to me, and what to answer when I am reproved.

“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not obey or give heed to Me,” declares יהוה.

“But they refused to listen, and they shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears from hearing.

Obey those leading you, and be subject to them, for they watch for your lives, as having to give account. Let them do so with joy and not groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.




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