New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Jeremiah 6
21 Therefore, thus says the Lord, "Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people. And they will stumble against them, Fathers and sons together; Neighbor and friend will perish."
22 Thus says the Lord, "Behold, a people is coming from the north land, And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.
23 "They seize bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the sea, And they ride on horses, Arrayed as a man for the battle Against you, O daughter of Zion!"
24 We have heard the report of it; Our hands are limp. Anguish has seized us, Pain as of a woman in childbirth.
25 Do not go out into the field And do not walk on the road, For the enemy has a sword, Terror is on every side.
26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us.
27 "I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people, That you may know and assay their way."
28 All of them are stubbornly rebellious, Going about as a talebearer. They are bronze and iron; They, all of them, are corrupt.
29 The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the refining goes on, But the wicked are not separated.
30 They call them rejected silver, Because the Lord has rejected them.
Jeremiah 7
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
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