Jeremiah 6:17
I have set watchmen over you, saying, Hear ye the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear it.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
18Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:11The Vision of Idumea. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.
Isaiah 58:1Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up thy voice as with a trumpet, and declare to my people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.
Jeremiah 8:5Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their wilfulness, and refused to return?
Jeremiah 25:4and I sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early; (but ye hearkened not, and listened not with your ears;) saying,
Ezekiel 3:17I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou shalt hear a word of my mouth, and shalt threaten them from me.
Hosea 8:1He shall come into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:10-18
The Universal Corruption of the Age. ( b. c. 608.) 9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. 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. 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord ; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the… Read the whole commentary →