Jeremiah 6:7

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Jeremiah 6:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

6 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.

7 As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

8 Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”

9 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”

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Ezekiel 22:6

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Ezekiel 22:7

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Ezekiel 22:8

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Ezekiel 22:9

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Ezekiel 22:10

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Ezekiel 22:11

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Ezekiel 22:12

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Micah 3:2

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Micah 3:3

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