“At that time,” declares Yahweh, “they will abring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.Ezek 6:5 2 And they will spread them out to the sun, the moon, and to all the ahost of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have walked after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered bor buried; cthey will be as dung on the face of the ground.2 Kin 23:5; Jer 19:13; Zeph 1:5; Acts 7:42Jer 22:19; 36:302 Kin 9:37; Ps 83:10; Jer 9:22 3 And adeath will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the bplaces to which I have banished them,” declares Yahweh of hosts.Job 3:21, 22; 7:15, 16; Jon 4:3; Rev 9:6Deut 30:1, 4; Jer 23:3, 8; 29:14 4 “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh,“Do men afall and not get up again?Does one turn away and not 1turn back?Or repentProv 24:16; Amos 5:2; Mic 7:8
The Faithlessness of Jerusalem
5 “Why then has this people, Jerusalem,1aTurned away in continual faithlessness?They bhold fast to deceit;They crefuse to return.Or Turned away in continually turningJer 5:6; 7:24Jer 5:27; 9:6Jer 5:36 “I ahave given heed and heard,They have spoken what is not right;bNo man regretted his evil,Saying, ‘What have I done?’Everyone turned to his course,Like a chorse charging into the battle.Ps 14:2; Mal 3:16Ezek 22:30; Mic 7:2; Rev 9:20Job 39:21-257 “Even the stork in the skyaKnows her seasons;And the bturtledove and the swift and the craneKeep the time of their 1migration;But cMy people do not knowThe legal judgment of Yahweh.Lit comingProv 6:6-8; Is 1:3Song 2:12Jer 5:4
8 “aHow can you say, ‘We are wise,And the law of Yahweh is with us’?But behold, the lying pen of the scribesHas made it into a lie.Job 5:12, 13; Jer 4:22; Rom 1:229 “The wise men are aput to shame;They are dismayed and captured;Behold, they have brejected the word of Yahweh,And what kind of wisdom do they have?Is 19:11; Jer 6:15; 1 Cor 1:27Jer 6:1910 “Therefore I will agive their wives to others,Their fields to 1new possessors,Because from the least even to the greatestEveryone is bgreedy for gain;From the prophet even to the priestEveryone practices lying.Lit possessing onesDeut 28:30; Jer 6:12, 13; 38:22fIs 56:11; 57:17; Jer 6:1311 “They aheal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’But there is no peace.Jer 6:14; 14:13, 14; Lam 2:14; Ezek 13:1012 “Were they aashamed because of the abomination they had done?They certainly were not ashamed,And they did not know how to feel dishonor;Therefore they shall bfall among those who fall;At the ctime of their 1punishment they shall be brought down,”Says Yahweh.Or visitation, so in JerPs 52:1, 7; Is 3:9; Jer 3:3; 6:15; Zeph 3:5Is 9:14; Jer 6:21; Hos 4:5Deut 32:35; Jer 10:15
13 “I will asurely gather them up,” declares Yahweh;“There will be bno grapes on the vineAnd cno figs on the fig tree,And the leaf will wither;And what I have given them will pass away.”’”Jer 14:12; Ezek 22:20, 21Jer 5:17; 7:20; Joel 1:7Matt 21:19; Luke 13:614 Why are we sitting still?aGather yourselves, and let us bgo into the fortified citiesAnd let us be silent thereBecause Yahweh our God has silenced usAnd given us 1cpoisoned water to drink,For dwe have sinned against Yahweh.Or gallJer 4:52 Sam 20:6; Jer 35:11Deut 29:18; Ps 69:21; Jer 9:15; 23:15; Lam 3:19; Matt 27:34Jer 3:25; 14:2015 We awaited for peace, but there was no good;For a time of healing, but behold, terror!Jer 8:11; 14:1916 From aDan is heard the snorting of his horses;At the sound of the neighing of his bvaliant steedsThe whole land quakes;And they come and cdevour the land as well as its fullness,The city and its inhabitants.Judg 18:29; Jer 4:15Judg 5:22Jer 3:24; 10:2517 “For behold, I am asending serpents against you,Vipers, for which there is bno charm,And they will bite you,” declares Yahweh.Num 21:6; Deut 32:24Ps 58:4, 5
Sorrow over Zion
18 1My asorrow is beyond healing;My bheart is faint within me!As in Gr and versionsIs 22:4; Lam 1:16, 17Jer 23:9; Lam 5:1719 Behold, the sound! The cry of the daughter of my people from a adistant land:“Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”“Why have they bprovoked Me to anger with their graven images, with foreign 1cidols?”Lit vanitiesIs 13:5; 39:3; Jer 4:16; 9:16Deut 32:21; Jer 7:19Ps 31:620 “Harvest is past, summer is ended,And we are not saved.”21 For the abrokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken;I bmourn, desolation has taken hold of me.Jer 4:19; 9:1; 14:17Jer 14:2; Joel 2:6; Nah 2:1022 Is there no abalm in Gilead?Is there no physician there?bWhy then has not the 1health of the daughter of my people gone up?Or healingGen 37:25; Jer 46:11Jer 14:19; 30:13