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The Siege Is Coming
The Lord[a]

Flee for safety, people of Benjamin!
Get out of Jerusalem!
Blow the ram’s horn in Tekoa.[b]
Raise a signal over Beth Hakkerem!
Disaster and great destruction threaten from the north.
I will silence the beautiful, pampered daughter of Zion.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:1 On the basis of the context and the gender of the Hebrew pronouns, the captions identify various speakers: the Lord, the enemy, and the people. In some instances these captions and divisions of the text are debatable.
  2. Jeremiah 6:1 The Hebrew word taka, blow, sounds like the name of the village Tekoa.
  3. Jeremiah 6:2 The meanings of two Hebrew words in this verse are uncertain.