16 Thus says the Lord: “Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the aold paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find brest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk init.’
17 Also, I set awatchmen over you, saying, b‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen.’
18 Therefore hear, you nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.
19aHear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring bcalamity on this people— cThe fruit of their thoughts, Because they have not heeded My words Nor My law, but rejected it.
20aFor what purpose to Me Comes frankincense bfrom Sheba, And csweet cane from a far country? dYour burnt offerings are not acceptable, Nor your sacrifices sweet to Me.”
21 Therefore thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, And the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish.”
congregation—parallel to "nations"; it therefore means the gathered peoples who are invited to be witnesses as to how great is the perversity of the Israelites (Jeremiah 6:16-17), and that they deserve the severe punishment about to be inflicted on them (Jeremiah 6:19).
what is among them—what deeds are committed by the Israelites (Jeremiah 6:16-17) [MAURER]. Or, "what punishments are about to be inflicted on them" [CALVIN].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 6:18:
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