Jeremiah 6:21

So Yahweh says this, 'See, I am about to place a stumbling block against this people. 1 They will stumble over it—fathers and sons together. Inhabitants and their neighbors will also perish.' 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

20“What does this frankincense going up from Sheba mean to me? Or these sweet smells from a distant land? 1 Your burnt offerings are not acceptable to me, nor are your sacrifices. 1

22Yahweh says this, 'See, a people is coming from the land of the north, 1 a great nation is being stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 8:14He will become a sanctuary; 1 but he will be a stone of striking, and a rock of stumbling— 2 for both the houses of Israel, 2 and he will be a trap and a snare 2 to the people of Jerusalem. 1

Isaiah 9:14Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day. 1

Jeremiah 9:21For death has come through our windows; it goes into our palaces. 1 It destroys children from outside, and young men in the city squares. 1

Jeremiah 15:2It will happen that they will say to you, 'Where should we go?' Then you must say to them, 'Yahweh says this: 1 Those who are for death should go to death; those who are for the sword should go to the sword. 1 Those who are for famine should go to famine; and those who are for captivity should go to captivity.'

Jeremiah 18:21Therefore give their children over to famine, and give them to the hands of those who use the sword. 1 So let their women become bereaved and widows, and their men be killed, and their young men killed by the sword in battle. 1

Jeremiah 21:7After this—this is Yahweh's declaration—Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, the people, and whoever remains in this city after the plague, the sword, and the famine, I will give them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their life. Then he will kill them with the edge of the sword. He will not pity them, spare them, or have compassion.'

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:19-30

Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 608.) 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. 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. 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. 21 Therefore thus saith the… Read the whole commentary →

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