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Jeremiah 6:8

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6:8So23 take warning, Jerusalem,

or I will abandon you in disgust24

and make you desolate,

a place where no one can live.”

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Footnotes

  1. 23 This word is not in the text but is supplied in the translation. Jeremiah uses a figure of speech (enallage) where the speaker turns from talking about someone to address him/her directly.
  2. 24 Heb “lest my soul [= I] becomes disgusted with you.” The wordplay begun with “sound … in Tekoa” in v. 1 and continued with “they will pitch” in v. 3 is concluded here with “turn away” (וּבִתְקוֹעַ תִּקְעוּ [uvitqoa’ tiq’u] in v. 1, תָּקְעוּ [taq’u] in v. 3 and תֵּקַע [teqa’] here).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Be warned, O Jerusalem,

lest I turn from you in disgust,

lest I make you a desolation,

an uninhabited land.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Take warning, Jerusalem,

or I will turn away from you

and make your land desolate

so no one can live in it.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Be warned, Jerusalem,

or I will turn away from you;

I will make you a desolation,

a land without inhabitants.

NLTNew Living Translation

Listen to this warning, Jerusalem,

or I will turn from you in disgust.

Listen, or I will turn you into a heap of ruins,

a land where no one lives.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Be warned, O Jerusalem,

lest I turn away from you in disgust,

lest I make you a desolation,

a land that is not inhabited.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.