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Jeremiah 6:1-2
Evangelical Heritage Version

The Siege Is Coming
The Lord[a]

6 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.
2 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.
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Jeremiah 6:1-2
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Jerusalem Under Siege

6 “Flee for safety, people of Benjamin!
    Flee from Jerusalem!
Sound the trumpet(A) in Tekoa!(B)
    Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem!(C)
For disaster looms out of the north,(D)
    even terrible destruction.
2 I will destroy Daughter Zion,(E)
    so beautiful and delicate.(F)

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