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Friday, September 26th, 2025
the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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THE MESSAGE

Jeremiah 6:18

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Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Rejection;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore listen, you nationsand you witnesses,learn what the charge is against them.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
King James Version
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
English Standard Version
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore hear, you nations, And know, you congregation, what is among them.
New Century Version
So listen, all you nations, and pay attention, you witnesses. Watch what I will do to the people of Judah.
Amplified Bible
"Therefore hear, O [Gentile] nations, And see, O congregation, what [vengeful act] is to be done to them.
World English Bible
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare therefore, yee Gentiles, and thou Congregation knowe, what is among them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore hear, O nations,And know, O congregation, what is among them.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.
Contemporary English Version
So I tell all nations on earth, "Watch what I will do!
Complete Jewish Bible
So hear, you nations; know, you assembly, what there is against them.
Darby Translation
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O assembly, what is among them.
Easy-to-Read Version
So listen, all you nations, and pay attention, you people in those countries.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, the deceit that is among them.
Good News Translation
So the Lord said, "Listen, you nations, and learn what is going to happen to my people.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O community, what will happen to them.
Literal Translation
So hear, O nations, and know, O assembly, that which is coming on them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare therfore ye Gentiles, and thou congregacion shalt knowe, what I haue deuysed for them.
American Standard Version
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Bible in Basic English
So then, give ear, you nations, and ••• Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is against them.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore heare ye nations, and know, O Congregation what is among them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare therefore ye gentiles, and thou congregation shalt know what I haue deuised for them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.
English Revised Version
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor, hethene men, here ye, and, thou congregacioun, knowe, hou grete thingis Y schal do to hem.
Update Bible Version
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them.
New English Translation
So the Lord said, "Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.
New King James Version
Therefore hear, you nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.
New Living Translation
"Therefore, listen to this, all you nations. Take note of my people's situation.
New Life Bible
So hear, O nations, and know, O people, what will happen to them.
New Revised Standard
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore, hear O ye nations, - And take knowledge O assembly, Of that which befalleth them:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great things I will do to them.
Revised Standard Version
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O company, That which [is] upon them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore hear, O nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.

Contextual Overview

21 So listen to this. Here's God 's verdict on your way of life: "Watch out! I'm putting roadblocks and barriers on the road you're taking. They'll send you sprawling, parents and children, neighbors and friends— and that will be the end of the lot of you." 22And listen to this verdict from God : "Look out! An invasion from the north, a mighty power on the move from a faraway place: Armed to the teeth, vicious and pitiless, Booming like sea storm and thunder—tramp, tramp, tramp— riding hard on war horses, In battle formation against you, dear Daughter Zion!" 24We've heard the news, and we're as limp as wet dishrags. We're paralyzed with fear. Terror has a death grip on our throats. Don't dare go outdoors! Don't leave the house! Death is on the prowl. Danger everywhere! 26 "Dear Daughter Zion: Dress in black. Blacken your face with ashes. Weep most bitterly, as for an only child. The countdown has begun... six, five, four, three... The Terror is on us!" 27 God gave me this task: "I have made you the examiner of my people, to examine and weigh their lives. They're a thickheaded, hard-nosed bunch, rotten to the core, the lot of them. Refining fires are cranked up to white heat, but the ore stays a lump, unchanged. It's useless to keep trying any longer. Nothing can refine evil out of them. Men will give up and call them ‘slag,' thrown on the slag heap by me, their God ."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hear: Jeremiah 4:10, Jeremiah 31:10, Deuteronomy 29:24-28, Psalms 50:4-6, Isaiah 5:3, Micah 6:5

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:16 - ye Jeremiah 50:2 - Declare

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, a man of integrity in his community. Noah walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 7:1
Next God said to Noah, "Now board the ship, you and all your family—out of everyone in this generation, you're the righteous one.
Genesis 7:13
That's the day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, accompanied by his wife and his sons' wives, boarded the ship. And with them every kind of wild and domestic animal, right down to all the kinds of creatures that crawl and all kinds of birds and anything that flies. They came to Noah and to the ship in pairs—everything and anything that had the breath of life in it, male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then God shut the door behind him.
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, go home and shut yourselves in. Go into seclusion for a while until the punishing wrath is past, Because God is sure to come from his place to punish the wrong of the people on earth. Earth itself will point out the bloodstains; it will show where the murdered have been hidden away.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore hear, ye nations,.... Since the Jews refused to hearken to the word of the Lord, the Gentiles are called upon to hear it, as in Acts 13:45, this is a rebuke to the Jews, that the Gentiles would hear, when they would not:

and know, O congregation; either of Israel, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it; or of the nations of the world, the multitude of them; or the church of God in the midst of them:

what is among them; among the Jews: either what evil is among them; what sins and transgressions are committed by them; which were the cause of the Lord's threatening them with sore judgments, and bringing them upon them; so Jarchi and Kimchi interpret the words; to which agrees the Targum,

"and let the congregation of Israel know their sins;''

or the punishments the Lord inflicted on them: so the Vulgate Latin version, "and know, O congregation, what I will do unto them"; which sense is confirmed by what follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God summons three witnesses to hear His sentence.

(1) the Gentiles.

(2) all mankind, Jews and Gentiles.

(3) nature (see Jeremiah 6:19).

What is among them - Rather, “what happens” in them; i. e., “Know what great things I will do to them.”


 
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