8Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.|


In Context

5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.|

6 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.

7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.|

9 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, |They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.|

10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Jeremiah 6:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Be thou instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.