Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
Jeremiah 6:8 - King James 2000 Be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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. American Standard Version (1901) Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited. Common English Bible Hear me out, Jerusalem, or else I’ll turn away from you and reduce you to ruins, a land unfit to live in. Catholic Public Domain Version 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." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited. |
Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.
But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
The young lions roared upon him, and growled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck myself upon the thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, my anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
But you shall say unto them, This is a nation that obeys not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receives correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Then will I cause 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 be desolate.
And I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like my mind was alienated from her sister.
For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction; so her dwelling should not be cut off, no matter how I punished her: but they rose early, and corrupted all their deeds.
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!