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As a water well keeps its water cool,
    so she keeps cool her wickedness.
Violence and destruction are heard within her,
    sickness and wounds[a] are continually before me.[b]
Be warned, O Jerusalem,
    lest I turn away from you in disgust,
lest I make you a desolation,
    a land that is not inhabited.”
Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
    “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine,
    turn back your hand over the branches like a grape-gatherer.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:7 Hebrew “wound”
  2. Jeremiah 6:7 Literally “at the face of me”