Jeremiah 6
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Lutheran reading notes
In Jeremiah chapter 6, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of warnings of judgment, covenant unfaithfulness, and future restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
Jeremiah 6:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate {woman}. {comely: or, dwelling at home}
Jeremiah 6:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch {their} tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Jeremiah 6:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
Jeremiah 6:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Jeremiah 6:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this {is} the city to be visited; she {is} wholly oppression in the midst of her. {cast...: or, pour out the engine of shot}
Jeremiah 6:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually {is} grief and wounds.
Jeremiah 6:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. {depart: Heb. be loosed, or, disjointed}
Jeremiah 6:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
Jeremiah 6:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear {is} uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Jeremiah 6:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon 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.
Jeremiah 6:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And their houses shall be turned unto others, {with their} fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 6:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one {is} given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah 6:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They have healed also the hurt {of the daughter} of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when {there is} no peace. {hurt: Heb. bruise, or, breach}
Jeremiah 6:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time {that} I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 6:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where {is} the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk {therein}.
Jeremiah 6:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Also I set watchmen over you, {saying}, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
Jeremiah 6:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what {is} among them.
Jeremiah 6:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, {even} the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
Jeremiah 6:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings {are} not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Jeremiah 6:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
Jeremiah 6:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Jeremiah 6:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they {are} cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 6:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, {and} pain, as of a woman in travail.
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Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy {and} fear {is} on every side.
Jeremiah 6:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O daughter of my people, gird {thee} with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, {as for} an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah 6:26 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have set thee {for} a tower {and} a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
Jeremiah 6:27 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They {are} all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: {they are} brass and iron; they {are} all corrupters.
Jeremiah 6:28 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jeremiah 6:29 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Reprobate silver shall {men} call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. {Reprobate...: or, Refuse silver}
Jeremiah 6:30 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.