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Jeremiah 6:17

American Standard Version

And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.

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Jeremiah 6:17 in other translations

I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’

Jeremiah 6:17 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 6:17 in context

  1. 15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
  2. 16Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.
  3. 17And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.
  4. 18Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
  5. 19Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.