Yeremia 6:16
Konteks6:16 The Lord said to his people: 1
“You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. 2
Ask where the old, reliable paths 3 are.
Ask where the path is that leads to blessing 4 and follow it.
If you do, you will find rest for your souls.”
But they said, “We will not follow it!”
Yeremia 6:19
Konteks6:19 Hear this, you peoples of the earth: 5
‘Take note! 6 I am about to bring disaster on these people.
It will come as punishment for their scheming. 7
For they have paid no attention to what I have said, 8
and they have rejected my law.
Yeremia 35:17
Konteks35:17 So I, the Lord, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, say: 9 “I will soon bring on Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem all the disaster that I threatened to bring on them. I will do this because I spoke to them but they did not listen. I called out to them but they did not answer.”’”
[6:16] 1 tn The words, “to his people” are not in the text but are implicit in the interchange of pronouns in the Hebrew of vv. 16-17. They are supplied in the translation here for clarity.
[6:16] 2 tn Heb “Stand at the crossroads and look.”
[6:16] 3 tn Heb “the ancient path,” i.e., the path the
[6:16] 4 tn Heb “the way of/to the good.”
[6:19] 7 tn Heb “disaster on these people, the fruit of their schemes.”
[35:17] 9 tn Heb “Therefore, thus says the