KJV King James Version
For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the city to be visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of her.
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Jeremiah 6:6
For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the city to be visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of her.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
WEB World English Bible
For Yahweh of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
ASV American Standard Version
For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Cut down her wood, And pour out against Jerusalem a mount, She is the city to be inspected, Wholly—she is oppression in her midst.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 6
3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the city to be visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.
8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּ֣יH3588 · kiforכֹ֤הH3541 · kohthusאָמַר֙H559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֣הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDצְבָא֔וֹתH6635 · tsa.vaarmyכִּרְת֣וּH3772 · ka.ratto cut: cutעֵצָ֔הH6097 · e.tsahtreeוְשִׁפְכ֥וּH8210 · sha.phakhto pour: pourעַל־H5921 · aluponיְרוּשָׁלִַ֖םH3389 · ye.ru.sha.laimJerusalemסֹלְלָ֑הH5550 · so.le.lahmoundהִ֚יאH1931 · huhe/she/itהָעִ֣ירH5892 · irexcitementהָפְקַ֔דH6485 · pa.qadto reckon: listכֻּלָּ֖הּH3605 · kolallעֹ֥שֶׁקH6233 · o.sheqoppressionבְּקִרְבָּֽהּ׃H7130 · qe.reventrails: among
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 20:19-20When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field [is] man’s [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:Jeremiah 32:24Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest [it].
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