Jeremiah 6:8 - New Revised Standard Version Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I shall turn from you in disgust, and make you a desolation, an uninhabited land. 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. |
Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.
Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear; they stiffened their necks and would not hear or receive instruction.
The lions have roared against him, they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
For after I had turned away I repented; and after I was discovered, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was dismayed because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”
They have turned their backs to me, not their faces; though I have taught them persistently, they would not listen and accept correction.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?
Therefore thus says the Lord God: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on human beings and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.
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.
And I will bring to an end the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice of the bride and bridegroom in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for the land shall become a waste.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
When she carried on her whorings so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned from her sister.
For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers; they give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”
Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them until no one is left. Woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
Then the land shall enjoy its sabbath years as long as it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its sabbath years.
I said, “Surely the city will fear me, it will accept correction; it will not lose sight of all that I have brought upon it.” But they were the more eager to make all their deeds corrupt.
If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what the end would be.