Jeremiah 6:8

Accept discipline, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you 1 and make you into a ruin, an uninhabited land.'” 1

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In The King James Version

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

In Context

7As a well pours out fresh water, so this city keeps producing wickedness. 1 Violence and disorder are heard within her; sickness and wounds are continually before my face. 1

9Yahweh of hosts says this, “They will certainly glean those who are left in Israel like a vineyard. 1 Reach out again with your hand to pick grapes from the vines. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:29Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, 1 that they would consider their coming fate! 1

Psalms 50:17since you hate instruction 1 and throw my words away? 1

Proverbs 4:13Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; 1 guard it, for it is your life. 1

Jeremiah 2:15Young lions roared against him. They made a lot of noise and made his land a horror. 1 His cities are destroyed without any inhabitants. 1

Jeremiah 7:3Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: Make your ways and practices good, and I will let you continue to live in this place.

Jeremiah 7:34I will put an end to the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the sound of the groom and the sound of the bride, for the land will become a desolation.”

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:2-9

Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 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 Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 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. 4… Read the whole commentary →

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