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The Lord Almighty said this:

‘I will let the enemy take all the people from Israel,
    like a farmer who picks all the grapes from his vine.
So check the vines carefully,
    to see if there are some grapes that you can save.’

10 I replied,

‘If I speak to people and I warn them,
    nobody will listen to me.
They have shut their ears so that they cannot hear.
They hate the Lord's message.
    They do not want to hear it.
11 I am as angry with them as you are, Lord.
    I can no longer control my anger.’

The Lord replied,

‘Tell everyone how angry you are!
    Tell the children who play in the streets,
    Tell the young men who meet together.
Include all the men and their wives,
    as well as the old people, and those who are near to death.

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This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Let them glean the remnant(A) of Israel
    as thoroughly as a vine;
pass your hand over the branches again,
    like one gathering grapes.”

10 To whom can I speak and give warning?
    Who will listen(B) to me?
Their ears are closed[a](C)
    so they cannot hear.(D)
The word(E) of the Lord is offensive to them;
    they find no pleasure in it.
11 But I am full of the wrath(F) of the Lord,
    and I cannot hold it in.(G)

“Pour it out on the children in the street
    and on the young men(H) gathered together;
both husband and wife will be caught in it,
    and the old, those weighed down with years.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:10 Hebrew uncircumcised