WEBVTT 00:00.560 --> 00:01.380 Chapter six. 00:02.200 --> 00:06.380 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of 00:06.380 --> 00:11.560 Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet into Koah, and set up a sign of fire in Bethacharem. 00:12.400 --> 00:15.560 For evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 00:16.360 --> 00:19.580 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 00:20.460 --> 00:22.440 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her. 00:22.940 --> 00:25.160 They shall pitch their tents against her round about. 00:25.820 --> 00:27.680 They shall feed everyone in his place. 00:28.240 --> 00:29.840 Prepare ye war against her. 00:30.160 --> 00:32.080 Arise, and let us go up at noon. 00:32.860 --> 00:37.180 Woe unto us, for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are 00:37.180 --> 00:37.920 stretched out. 00:38.540 --> 00:41.900 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. 00:42.980 --> 00:47.820 For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount 00:47.820 --> 00:48.660 against Jerusalem. 00:49.520 --> 00:50.980 This is the city to be visited. 00:51.680 --> 00:54.000 She is holy oppression in the midst of her. 00:54.640 --> 00:59.500 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness. 01:00.200 --> 01:02.160 Violence and spoil is heard in her. 01:03.000 --> 01:05.680 Before me continually is grief and wounds. 01:06.500 --> 01:10.260 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, 01:10.640 --> 01:13.360 lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. 01:14.480 --> 01:19.240 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a 01:19.240 --> 01:19.600 vine. 01:20.300 --> 01:23.300 Turn back thine hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets. 01:24.300 --> 01:26.900 To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear? 01:27.380 --> 01:31.420 Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken. 01:32.380 --> 01:37.440 Behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it. 01:38.400 --> 01:42.400 Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in. 01:43.540 --> 01:47.320 I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men 01:47.320 --> 01:47.680 together. 01:48.500 --> 01:52.360 For even the husband with a wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of 01:52.360 --> 01:52.700 days. 01:53.460 --> 01:57.100 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives 01:57.100 --> 01:57.500 together. 01:58.420 --> 02:01.900 For I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord. 02:02.880 --> 02:07.240 For from the least of them, even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to 02:07.240 --> 02:07.920 covetousness. 02:08.400 --> 02:12.580 And from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely. 02:13.400 --> 02:16.680 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, 02:17.140 --> 02:20.400 saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace. 02:20.400 --> 02:23.180 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? 02:23.960 --> 02:27.460 Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. 02:28.360 --> 02:30.400 Therefore they shall fall among them that fall. 02:31.060 --> 02:34.100 At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord. 02:34.940 --> 02:40.440 Thus saith the Lord, stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths. 02:41.160 --> 02:45.680 Where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. 02:46.340 --> 02:48.880 But they said, We will not walk therein. 02:49.600 --> 02:53.380 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. 02:53.700 --> 02:55.540 But they said, We will not hearken. 02:56.660 --> 03:00.740 Therefore hear ye, nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. 03:01.460 --> 03:06.700 Hear, O earth, behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their 03:06.700 --> 03:11.540 thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected 03:11.540 --> 03:11.860 it. 03:12.860 --> 03:17.100 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far 03:17.100 --> 03:17.540 country? 03:18.260 --> 03:22.740 Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. 03:23.940 --> 03:28.440 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before 03:28.440 --> 03:31.880 this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them. 03:32.340 --> 03:34.380 The neighbour and his friend shall perish. 03:35.340 --> 03:39.400 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, 03:39.820 --> 03:42.500 and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. 03:43.180 --> 03:45.120 They shall lay hold on bow and spear. 03:45.860 --> 03:47.820 They are cruel and have no mercy. 03:48.560 --> 03:53.040 Their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses, set in array as 03:53.040 --> 03:55.720 men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. 03:56.640 --> 03:58.360 We have heard the fame thereof. 03:58.980 --> 04:04.140 Our hands wax feeble, anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in 04:04.140 --> 04:04.380 travail. 04:05.300 --> 04:09.960 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way, for the sword of the enemy and 04:09.960 --> 04:11.360 fear is on every side. 04:12.100 --> 04:16.620 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth and wallow thyself in ashes. 04:17.560 --> 04:22.740 Make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the spoiler 04:22.740 --> 04:24.120 shall suddenly come upon us. 04:24.660 --> 04:30.100 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and 04:30.100 --> 04:30.780 try their way. 04:31.780 --> 04:35.040 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders. 04:35.520 --> 04:38.360 They are brass and iron, they are all corruptors. 04:38.920 --> 04:44.040 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire, the founder melteth 04:44.040 --> 04:46.920 in vain, for the wicked are not plucked away. 04:47.860 --> 04:51.960 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.