24:006:004 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and
let us go up at noon.
Woe
unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of
the
evening
are stretched out.
24:006:005 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
24:006:006 For thus hath the lord of hosts said,
Hew ye down trees, and
cast
a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to
be
visited;
she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
24:006:007 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so
she casteth out her
wickedness:
violence and spoil is heard in her; before me
continually
is grief and wounds.
24:006:008 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my
soul depart from
thee;
lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
24:006:009 Thus saith the lord of hosts, They
shall throughly glean the
remnant
of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a
grapegatherer
into the baskets.
24:006:010 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.
24:006:011 Therefore I am full of the fury of the
lord; I am weary with
holding
in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad,
and
upon
the assembly of young men together: for even the
husband
with
the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is
full
of
days.
24:006:012 And their houses shall be turned unto others,
with their
fields
and wives together: for I will stretch out my
hand upon
the
inhabitants of the land, saith the lord.
24:006:013 For from the least of them even unto the
greatest of them
every
one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet
even
unto
the priest every one dealeth falsely.
24:006:014 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter
of my people
slightly,
saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
24:006:015 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay,
they
were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
therefore
they shall fall among them that fall: at the time
that
I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the lord.
24:006:016 Thus saith the lord, Stand ye in the
ways, and see, and ask
for
the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein,
and
ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said,
We will
not
walk therein.
24:006:017 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken
to the sound of
the
trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.


