Jeremiah 6:8 - Tree of Life Version Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I abandon you, lest I make you desolate— 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. |
Blessed is the one You discipline, Adonai, and teach him from Your Torah,
Listen to advice and accept instruction, so that in the end you may be wise.
Hold on tightly to instruction, do not let it go— guard it, for it is your life.
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, not hearing or accepting correction.
Young lions have roared at him they have roared loudly. They made his land a waste— his cities are in ruins and uninhabited.
Is Ephraim a precious son to Me? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I still certainly remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him. I will surely have compassion on him.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
“They have turned their back to Me and not their face. Though I taught them early and often, they have not listened to receive instruction.
O Jerusalem, purify your heart from wickedness, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “My anger and My wrath is about to be poured out on this place—on man and beast, and on the trees of the field and the fruit of the land—and it will burn and not be quenched.”
So you will say to them, ‘This nation has not obeyed the voice of Adonai their God or received correction. Truth has perished and is cut off from their mouth.
Then I will bring an end, from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, to the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land will be desolate.”
Who is the one wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Adonai spoken that he may explain it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?”
When she exposed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness, My soul was disgusted by her, just as My soul was disgusted by her sister.
Or else I will strip her naked and expose her as on the day she was born. Then I will make her like a wilderness. Yes, I will make her like desert land, and I will let her die of thirst.
For if they should raise their children, I would make them childless to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
Then the land will enjoy its Shabbatot all the days of its desolation, while you are in the land of your enemies. Then the land will rest and enjoy its Shabbatot.
I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me, you will accept correction, so her dwelling place would not be cut off— all that I appointed against her.’ But they arose early and made all their deeds corrupt.
“If they were wise, they would discern this, they would understand their hereafter.