As the fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her malice; [a]cruelty and spoil is continually heard in her before me, with sorrow and strokes.

Be thou instructed, O [b]Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate as a land that none inhabiteth.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall gather as a vine, the residue of Israel: turn [c]back thine hand as the grape gatherer into the baskets.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:7 He showeth the cause why it should be destroyed, and how it cometh of themselves.
  2. Jeremiah 6:8 He warneth them to amend by his correction, and turn to him by repentance.
  3. Jeremiah 6:9 He exhorteth the Babylonians to be diligent to search out all and to leave none.

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