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  1. 16 This is what the Lord says.
    Stand at the crossroads and look.
    Ask about the ancient paths.
    Ask where the good road is.
    Walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.
    But you said, “We will not walk in it.”
    17 I set watchmen over you and said,
    “Listen to the sound of the ram’s horn!”
    But you said, “We will not listen.”

    18 Therefore, listen, you nations!
    You witnesses, observe what will happen to them.
    19 Listen, O earth.
    I am bringing disaster on this people,
    the fruit of their schemes,
    because they have not listened to my words,
    and they have rejected my law.
    20 What use to me is incense from Sheba
    or sweet cane from a distant land?
    Your burnt offerings are not appealing to me.
    Your sacrifices do not please me.

    21 Therefore this is what the Lord says.
    Look, I am going to place obstacles in front of this people.
    Parents and children alike will stumble over them.
    Friends and neighbors will perish.

    22 This is what the Lord says.
    Look, a nation is coming from a land in the north.
    A great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
    23 Its warriors grip bows and spears.
    They are cruel and merciless.
    They sound like the roaring sea.
    They ride horses, arranged like soldiers ready for battle
    against you, O daughter of Zion.

    24 We have heard the news about them,
    and our hands hang limp.
    Anguish grips us like a woman in labor.
    25 Do not go out to the field.
    Do not walk on the road,
    because the enemy has a sword.
    There is terror on every side.
    26 Put on sackcloth, daughter of my people.
    Roll in ashes.
    Mourn as you would for an only son,
    because suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

    27 I have made you like someone who tests metals.
    My people are the ore that is being tested.
    Observe them,
    and examine their ways.
    28 They are all stubborn rebels,
    walking in slander.
    They are as hard as bronze and iron,
    and all of them are contaminated.
    29 The bellows blows hot to melt away the refining agent[g] with fire.
    The refining agent is completely used up, but the evil is not removed.
    30 They are classified as rejected silver,
    because the Lord has rejected them. Jeremiah 6:16-30 (EHV)

    Footnotes
    [g] Jeremiah 6:29 Literally lead

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