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6:1  “Head for cover, people of Binyamin, get out of Yerushalayim! Blow the shofar in T’koa, light the beacon on Beit-Hakerem. For disaster threatens from the north, with great destruction.
6:2  Although she is beautiful and delicate, I am cutting off the daughter of Tziyon.”
6:3  Shepherds advance on her with their flocks; all around her they pitch their tents, each grazing his own plot of pasture.
6:4  “Prepare for war against her! Get up! Let’s attack at noon!” “Woe to us! for the day is waning, evening shadows are lengthening.”
6:5  “Get up! Let’s attack at night! Let’s destroy her palaces!”
6:6  For Adonai-Tzva’ot says this: “Cut down her trees, and raise a siege-ramp against Yerushalayim! This is the city to be punished; in her there is nothing but oppression.
6:7  Just as a cistern keeps its water fresh, so she keeps her wickedness fresh! Violence and destruction are heard within her, always before me sickness and wounds.
6:8  Accept correction, Yerushalayim, or I will be estranged from you and turn you into a desolate waste, a land without inhabitants.”
6:9  Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “They will glean the remnant of Isra’el as thoroughly as in a vineyard — one last time, like a grape-picker, pass your hand over the vines.”
6:10  To whom should I speak? Whom should I warn? Who will listen to me? Their ears are dull, they can’t pay attention. For them the word of Adonai has become unattractive, an object of scorn.
6:11  This is why I am full of Adonai’s fury; I am weary of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street and on the groups of young men gathered; for husbands and wives will be taken together, seniors as well as the very old.
6:12  Their homes will be turned over to others, their fields together with their wives. Yes, I will stretch out my hand against those who are living in the land,” says Adonai.
6:13  “For from the least to the greatest of them, all are greedy for gains; prophets and cohanim alike, they all practice fraud —
6:14  they dress the wound of my people, but only superficially, saying, ‘There is perfect shalom,’ when there is no shalom.
6:15  “They should be ashamed of their detestable deeds, but they are not ashamed at all; they don’t know how to blush. Therefore when others fall, they too will fall; when I punish them, they will stumble,” says Adonai.
6:16  Here is what Adonai says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask about the ancient paths, ‘Which one is the good way?’ Take it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not take it.’
6:17  I appointed sentinels to direct them: ‘Listen for the sound of the shofar.’ But they said, ‘We will not listen.’
6:18  So hear, you nations; know, you assembly, what there is against them.
6:19  Hear, oh earth! I am going to bring disaster on this people; it is the consequence of their own way of thinking; for they pay no attention to my words; and as for my Torah, they reject it.
6:20  What do I care about incense from Sh’va or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are unacceptable, your sacrifices don’t please me.”
6:21  Therefore thus says Adonai: “I will put obstacles in the way of this people that they will stumble over — fathers and sons, neighbors and friends, all will perish together.”
6:22  Here is what Adonai says: “A people is coming from the land of the north, a great nation will be aroused from the ends of the earth.
6:23  They will take hold of bow and spear; they are cruel; they have no compassion: their noise as they ride on horses is like the roaring sea; and they are equipped for battle against you, daughter of Tziyon.
6:24  ‘We have heard the news, and our hands fall limp; anguish has seized us, pain like a mother’s in childbirth.’”
6:25  Don’t go into the countryside, don’t walk out on the road; for the sword of the enemy is spreading terror in every direction.
6:26  Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, roll in ashes, mourn as if for an only son, wail most bitterly; for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
6:27  “I have made you a refiner and tester of my people, to know and test how they behave.
6:28  All of them are total rebels, spreading slanderous gossip; they are bronze and iron, [inferior metals,] all of them corrupt.
6:29  The bellows blast away; and though the lead is consumed by the fire, in vain has the smelter refined, for the wicked have not been separated.
6:30  They are called ‘rejected silver,’ because Adonai has rejected them.”