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Jeremiah Chapter 6

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Jeremiah

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The chapter describes the people’s heavy hearts and their failure to repent after their sins. It warns that God will bring judgment because they have turned away from Him.

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(1) 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.
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Joshua 15:63Joshua 18:21Joshua 18:22Joshua 18:23Joshua 18:24Joshua 18:25Joshua 18:26Joshua 18:27Joshua 18:28Judges 1:21Jeremiah 4:29Jeremiah 10:17

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Jeremiah 4:5Numbers 10:4Ezekiel 22:20Ezekiel 39:17Joel 3:11Zephaniah 2:1

(2) I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
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Jeremiah 4:31Isaiah 1:8Isaiah 3:16Isaiah 3:17Lamentations 2:1Lamentations 2:13

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17II Kings 19:21Isaiah 37:22Isaiah 47:1

(3) 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.
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Nahum 3:18Jeremiah 4:16Jeremiah 4:17Jeremiah 39:1Jeremiah 39:2Jeremiah 39:3II Kings 24:2II Kings 24:10II Kings 24:11II Kings 24:12II Kings 25:1II Kings 25:2

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Ezekiel 34:2Song of Solomon 1:8Genesis 46:32I Kings 6:5Ezekiel 46:23Ezekiel 34:10

(4) 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.
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Jeremiah 5:10Jeremiah 51:27Jeremiah 51:28Isaiah 5:26Isaiah 5:27Isaiah 5:28Isaiah 5:29Isaiah 5:30Isaiah 13:2Isaiah 13:3Isaiah 13:4Isaiah 13:5

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Joel 3:9Revelation 8:13

(5) Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
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Jeremiah 9:21Jeremiah 17:27Jeremiah 52:13II Chronicles 36:19Psalms 48:3Isaiah 32:14Hosea 8:14Amos 2:5Amos 3:10Amos 3:11Zechariah 11:1

(6) 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.
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Leviticus 23:40I Kings 5:6II Chronicles 2:8Exodus 19:20Isaiah 18:7Zechariah 1:3

(7) 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.
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Proverbs 4:23Isaiah 57:20James 3:10James 3:11James 3:12Jeremiah 20:8Psalms 55:9Psalms 55:10Psalms 55:11Ezekiel 7:11Ezekiel 7:23Ezekiel 22:3

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Jeremiah 44:9Genesis 1:6Genesis 8:3Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4Habakkuk 2:17

(8) Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
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Jeremiah 4:14Jeremiah 7:3Jeremiah 7:4Jeremiah 7:5Jeremiah 7:6Jeremiah 7:7Jeremiah 17:23Jeremiah 31:19Jeremiah 32:33Jeremiah 35:13Jeremiah 35:14Jeremiah 35:15

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Deuteronomy 4:9Exodus 34:12Leviticus 10:6Deuteronomy 29:18Deuteronomy 32:27II Samuel 1:20

(9) 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.
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Jeremiah 16:16Jeremiah 49:9Jeremiah 52:28Jeremiah 52:29Jeremiah 52:30Obadiah 1:5Obadiah 1:6Revelation 14:18

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Zechariah 1:3Isaiah 14:27Ezekiel 33:11Zechariah 8:6

(10) 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.
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Jeremiah 5:4Jeremiah 5:5Isaiah 28:9Isaiah 28:10Isaiah 28:11Isaiah 28:12Isaiah 28:13Isaiah 53:1Ezekiel 3:18Ezekiel 3:19Ezekiel 3:20Ezekiel 3:21

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Genesis 34:14Isaiah 59:1

(11) 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.
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Jeremiah 20:9Job 32:18Job 32:19Ezekiel 3:14Micah 3:8Acts 4:20Acts 17:16Acts 18:5Jeremiah 9:21Jeremiah 18:21Revelation 16:1Ezekiel 9:6

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Romans 7:2Leviticus 16:12Deuteronomy 6:11Isaiah 2:7Jeremiah 5:27Jeremiah 30:11

(12) 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.
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Jeremiah 8:10Deuteronomy 28:30Deuteronomy 28:31Deuteronomy 28:32Deuteronomy 28:33Deuteronomy 28:39Deuteronomy 28:40Deuteronomy 28:41Deuteronomy 28:42Deuteronomy 28:43Isaiah 65:21Isaiah 65:22

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Exodus 10:6Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33I Kings 11:3Jeremiah 8:10

(13) 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.
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Jeremiah 8:10Jeremiah 14:18Jeremiah 22:17Jeremiah 23:11Isaiah 56:9Isaiah 56:10Isaiah 56:11Isaiah 56:12Isaiah 57:17Ezekiel 22:12Ezekiel 33:31Micah 2:1

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Jeremiah 8:10Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12

(14) They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
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Jeremiah 8:11Jeremiah 8:12Ezekiel 13:10Jeremiah 14:17Isaiah 1:6Isaiah 30:26Jeremiah 4:10Jeremiah 5:12Jeremiah 14:13Jeremiah 23:17Jeremiah 28:3Lamentations 2:14

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Jeremiah 8:11Luke 12:53Jeremiah 8:21Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(15) 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.
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Jeremiah 3:3Jeremiah 8:12Isaiah 3:9Ezekiel 2:4Ezekiel 16:24Ezekiel 16:25Ezekiel 24:7Zephaniah 3:5Philippians 3:19Jeremiah 23:12Proverbs 29:1Isaiah 10:4

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Jeremiah 8:12II Samuel 24:14I Chronicles 21:13Esther 6:13Isaiah 31:3Jeremiah 51:49

(16) 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.
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Jeremiah 18:15Deuteronomy 32:7Song of Solomon 1:7Song of Solomon 1:8Isaiah 8:20Malachi 4:4Luke 16:29John 5:39John 5:46John 5:47Acts 17:11Romans 4:1

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Joshua 10:37Revelation 10:6Zechariah 3:7Hosea 14:9I Kings 3:14Jeremiah 18:15

(17) Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
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Jeremiah 25:4Isaiah 21:11Isaiah 56:10Ezekiel 3:17Ezekiel 3:18Ezekiel 3:19Ezekiel 3:20Ezekiel 3:21Ezekiel 33:2Ezekiel 33:3Ezekiel 33:4Ezekiel 33:5

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Judges 9:7Ezekiel 3:7Leviticus 25:9

(18) Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
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Jeremiah 4:10Jeremiah 31:10Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28Psalms 50:4Psalms 50:5Psalms 50:6Isaiah 5:3Micah 6:5

(19) 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.
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Jeremiah 22:29Deuteronomy 4:26Deuteronomy 30:19Deuteronomy 32:1Isaiah 1:2Micah 6:2Jeremiah 4:4Jeremiah 17:10Proverbs 1:24Proverbs 1:25Proverbs 1:26Proverbs 1:27

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Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 30:9Ezekiel 47:12Matthew 12:33John 15:2

(20) 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.
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Psalms 40:6Psalms 50:7Psalms 50:8Psalms 50:9Psalms 50:10Psalms 50:11Psalms 50:12Psalms 50:13Psalms 50:16Psalms 50:17Psalms 66:3Isaiah 1:11

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 29:31Jeremiah 17:26Deuteronomy 12:6I Chronicles 29:21

(21) 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.
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Jeremiah 13:16Isaiah 8:14Ezekiel 3:20Romans 9:33Romans 11:9I Peter 2:8Jeremiah 9:21Jeremiah 9:22Jeremiah 15:2Jeremiah 15:3Jeremiah 15:4Jeremiah 15:5

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Zechariah 14:13Proverbs 27:10

(22) 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.
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Jeremiah 6:1Jeremiah 1:14Jeremiah 1:15Jeremiah 5:15Jeremiah 10:22Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 50:41Jeremiah 50:42Jeremiah 50:43

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Zechariah 6:8Jeremiah 5:15Zechariah 6:6Jeremiah 25:32Jeremiah 50:3Jeremiah 50:41

(23) 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.
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Jeremiah 5:16Jeremiah 50:42Isaiah 13:18Ezekiel 23:22Ezekiel 23:23Ezekiel 23:24Ezekiel 23:25Habakkuk 1:6Habakkuk 1:7Habakkuk 1:8Habakkuk 1:9Habakkuk 1:10

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Jeremiah 50:42Micah 4:8Luke 12:53I Chronicles 5:18Lamentations 2:4Hosea 1:7

(24) 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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Jeremiah 4:6Jeremiah 4:7Jeremiah 4:8Jeremiah 4:9Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 4:21Isaiah 28:19Ezekiel 21:6Ezekiel 21:7Habakkuk 3:16Jeremiah 4:31

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Jeremiah 50:43Psalms 48:6Jeremiah 49:24

(25) Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
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Jeremiah 4:5Jeremiah 8:14Jeremiah 14:18Judges 5:6Judges 5:7Jeremiah 4:10Jeremiah 20:3Jeremiah 20:4Jeremiah 20:10Jeremiah 49:29II Chronicles 15:5Job 18:11

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Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5

(26) 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.
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Jeremiah 6:14Jeremiah 4:11Jeremiah 8:19Jeremiah 8:21Jeremiah 8:22Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 14:17Isaiah 22:4Lamentations 2:11Lamentations 3:48Lamentations 4:3Lamentations 4:6

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Amos 8:10Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Lamentations 2:5Esther 4:1

(27) I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
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Jeremiah 1:18Jeremiah 15:20Ezekiel 3:8Ezekiel 3:9Ezekiel 3:10Ezekiel 20:4Ezekiel 22:2

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Deuteronomy 30:20Revelation 3:18

(28) They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
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Jeremiah 5:23Isaiah 1:5Isaiah 31:6Jeremiah 9:4Jeremiah 18:18Jeremiah 20:10Psalms 50:20Jeremiah 6:30Ezekiel 22:18Ezekiel 22:19Ezekiel 22:20Ezekiel 22:21

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I Chronicles 29:2Isaiah 60:17Daniel 2:40Daniel 2:41

(29) The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
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Jeremiah 9:7Proverbs 17:3Zechariah 13:9Malachi 3:2Malachi 3:3I Peter 1:7I Peter 4:12Isaiah 49:4Ezekiel 24:13Hosea 11:7

(30) Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
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Psalms 119:119Proverbs 25:4Isaiah 1:22Isaiah 1:25Ezekiel 22:18Ezekiel 22:19Matthew 5:13Jeremiah 14:19Lamentations 5:22Hosea 9:17Romans 11:1

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Exodus 38:17

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