Jeremiah 6:7 Cross References - ECB

⁷ As digging a well for waters, thus she digs her evil: violence and ravage is heard in her; at my face continually is sickness and wounds.

⁹ Swallow them, O Adonay; divide their tongues: for I see violence and strife in the city. ¹⁰ Day and night they surround the walls; mischief also and toil are in their midst; ¹¹ calamity is in the midst: fraud and deceit depart not from her broadways.

²³ guard your heart under guard; for from it are the issues of life:

²⁰ And the wicked are as the driven sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters expel filth and mire.

⁸ for I word enough; I call out; I cry violence and ravage; because of the word of Yah Veh is a reproach to me; and a ridicule, daily.

¹¹ violence rises into a rod of wickedness: neither one of them nor of their multitude nor of any of abundance; nor any lamentation for them.

²³ Work a chain: for the land fills with judgments of blood, and the city fills with violence.

³ saying, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: The city pours blood in its midst, so that her time approaches: and she works idols against herself to foul herself. ⁴ You guilt in that you pour blood; and foul yourself by the idols you work; and you cause your days to approach, and approach your years: so I give you - a reproach to the goyim and a ridicule to all lands. ⁵ The near, and the far from you, all ridicule you, O polluted of name and much confused. ⁶ Behold, the hierarchs of Yisra El, every man of you, according to his arm, pours blood: ⁷ in you they abase father and mother: in your midst they worked oppression with the sojourner: in you they vex the orphan and the widow. ⁸ You despise my holies and you profane my shabbaths: ⁹ in you are men - talebearers to pour blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in your midst they work intrigue: ¹⁰ in you they expose the nakedness of their fathers: in you they debase her who was excluded for foulness. ¹¹ And every man works abhorrence with the woman of his friend: and every man intriguingly fouls his daughter in law: and every man in you debases his sister - the daughter of his father: ¹² in you they take bribes to pour blood: you take usury and bounty and you greedily gain of your friends by extortion: and forget me - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh.

⁷ For her blood is in her midst; she sets it on the clearing of a rock; she pours it not on the earth, to cover it with dust;

¹ Ho to them who fabricate mischief - who work evil on their beds! In the light of the morning, they work because it is in the el of their hand: ² and they desire fields and strip them; and houses, and bear them away: and oppress a mighty and his house - even a man and his inheritance.

⁸ From yesterday my people rise as an enemy: you strip the mighty mantle with the clothes from them who pass by confidently as men returning from war: ⁹ you expel the women of my people from their houses of delights; from their sucklings you take away my majesty eternally. ¹⁰ Rise and depart; for this not rest: because of foulness, it despoils you - a forceful despoiling.

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THE WORD OF YAH VEH TO YAAQOV AND YISRA EL
And I say, Hear, I beseech you, O heads of Yaaqov and you commanders of the house of Yisra El; Is it not for you to know judgment? ² - Who hate the good and love the evil? Who strip their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones? ³ Who eat the flesh of my people? They strip their skin and they break their bones; and spread them as for the caldron and as flesh within the caldron.

⁹ Hear this, I beseech you, you heads of the house of Yaaqov and commanders of the house of Yisra El - who abhor judgment and pervert all straightness ¹⁰ - who build Siyon with blood and Yeru Shalem with wickedness. ¹¹ The heads judge for a bribe and the priests teach for a price, and the prophets divine for silver: yet they lean on Yah Veh, saying, Is not Yah Veh among us? Evil approaches us not! ¹² So because of you Siyon is plowed as a field and Yeru Shalem becomes heaps; and the mountain of the house as the bamahs of the forest.

² the merciful destruct from the earth; and no one among humanity is straight: they all lurk for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net ³ to do evil with both palms well-pleasingly, the governor and the judge ask for satisfaction; and the great words of the mischief of his soul: thus they pervert.

¹⁰ From the same mouth comes eulogy and cursing. My brothers, these need not be thus. ¹¹ A fountain, at the same cavern, sends it sweet and bitter? ¹² Can the fig tree, my brothers, make olives? Or a vine, figs? Thus no fountain makes both salt water and fresh.