The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?”
Jeremiah 6:17 - English Standard Version 2016 I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not pay attention.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, “Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?”
His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
“Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest,
“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the Lord persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
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.
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse 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 transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.
I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.