Jeremiah Chapter 6

Judah’s enemies encourage themselves

6:1 O y’all children of Benjaminבִּנְיָמִי
Bīnyāmīn Meaning: “Son of (the) right” or “Son of My right hand” was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob’s thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) – son of Bilhan, great-grandson of Benjamin – a Benjamite, one of the sons of Harim, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife – the tribe descended from Benjamin, the son of Jacob – For more info click here, gather yourselves to escape out of the middle of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, and blow the shofarשׁוֹפָר‎
Transliteration šôp̄ār Pronunciation sho-far’horn, trumpet ram’s horn – For more info click here in Tekoa (or Tekoah), and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: because evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.
6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here to a comely and delicate woman.
6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.
6:4 Y’all prepare war against her; get up, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! because the day goes away, because the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
6:5 Get up, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6:6 Because has YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hostsצְבָאוֹת‎
Transliteration:ṣāḇā’ Pronunciation: tsaw-baw’ From the Hebrew root word translated “hosts” is tzva’ which is a term that describes “military units.” They have specific functions to carry out in a military campaign. The two places these military units are located is in the sky and on the earth. Continue reading at: click here said so, Cut y’all down trees, and throw a mount against Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the middtle of her.
6:7 Like a fountain throws out her waters, so she throws out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
6:8 Be you instructed, O Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.

The prophet’s lament

6:9 So says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hostsצְבָאוֹת‎
Transliteration:ṣāḇā’ Pronunciation: tsaw-baw’ From the Hebrew root word translated “hosts” is tzva’ which is a term that describes “military units.” They have specific functions to carry out in a military campaign. The two places these military units are located is in the sky and on the earth. Continue reading at: click here, They shall thoroughly glean the remainder of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration:yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here like a vine: turn back your hand like a grapegatherer into the baskets.
6:10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? see, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t hear: see, the word of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
6:11 Therefore I am full of the fury of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and on the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
6:12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: because I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
6:13 Becauser from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priestכֹּהֵן
kôhên, ko-hane’ Kohen = priest, principal officer or chief ruler For more info click here everyone deals falsely.
6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, wholeness, prosperity For more info click here, peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, wholeness, prosperity For more info click here; when there is no peaceשָׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration šālôm Pronunciation shaw-lome’ shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, wholeness, prosperity For more info click here.
6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they weren’t ashamed at all, or could they blush: so they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be thrown down, says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
6:16 So says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, Stand y’all in the roadsדְּרָכִים
Transliteration:dᵊrāḵîm – ways, roads, distances, journeys, manners, paths, directions, towards For more info For more info click here, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the goodהַטּוֹב
Transliteration: haṭṭôḇ – the good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, × fair. For more info click here roadדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration:dereḵ Pronunciation:deh’-rek way, road, distance, journey, manner, path, direction, toward For more info For more info click here, and walk in it, and y’all shall find rest for your soulsלְנַפְשְׁכֶם
Transliteration: lᵊnap̄šᵊḵem – Noun: Meaning: for/to your souls, for/to yourselves, for/to your lives, for/to your creatures, for/to your persons, for/to your appetites, for/to your minds, for/to your living beings, for/to your desires, for/to your emotions, for/to your passions For more info click here. But they said, We will not walk in it.
6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the shofarשׁוֹפָר‎
Transliteration šôp̄ār Pronunciation sho-far’horn, trumpet ram’s horn – For more info click here. But they said, We will not listen.
6:18 Therefore hear,y’all nationsהַגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: hagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
6:19 Hear, O earth: look, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they haven’t listened to my words, or to My Torahוְתוֹרָתִי‎
Transliteration: vᵊṯôrāṯî; law, teaching, direction, instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot., but rejected it.
6:20 To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings aren’t acceptable, or your sacrifices sweet to Me.
6:21 Therefore so says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, See, I will lay stumblingblocks before these people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
6:22 So says YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, Look, a people comes from the north country, and a great nationוְגוֹי‎
Transliteration: vᵊḡôy – masculine noun, proper masculine noun Meaning and a nation- (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—Gentile, heathen, nation, people. For more info click here shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
6:23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, set in array like men for war against you, O daughter of Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here.
6:24 We have heard the fame of it: our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, like of a woman in labor.
6:25 Don’t go out into the field, or walk in the roadוּבַדֶּרֶךְ‎
Transliteration: ûḇadereḵ and in the way, and in the road, and in the path, and in the route, and in the distance, and in the journey, and in the manner For more info click here; because the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

The people are called to mourn

6:26 O daughter of my people, dress in sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, like for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come on us.
6:27 I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their wayדַּרְכָּם‎
Transliteration: darkām their way, their road, their path, their route, their distance, their journey, their manner For more info click here.
6:28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are bronze and iron; they are all corrupters.
6:29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain: because the wicked aren’t plucked away.
6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has rejected them.