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Saturday, July 26th, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Good News Translation

Jeremiah 6:18

So the Lord said, "Listen, you nations, and learn what is going to happen to my people.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Rejection;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore listen, you nationsand you witnesses,learn what the charge is against them.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
King James Version
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
English Standard Version
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore hear, you nations, And know, you congregation, what is among them.
New Century Version
So listen, all you nations, and pay attention, you witnesses. Watch what I will do to the people of Judah.
Amplified Bible
"Therefore hear, O [Gentile] nations, And see, O congregation, what [vengeful act] is to be done to them.
World English Bible
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare therefore, yee Gentiles, and thou Congregation knowe, what is among them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore hear, O nations,And know, O congregation, what is among them.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.
Contemporary English Version
So I tell all nations on earth, "Watch what I will do!
Complete Jewish Bible
So hear, you nations; know, you assembly, what there is against them.
Darby Translation
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O assembly, what is among them.
Easy-to-Read Version
So listen, all you nations, and pay attention, you people in those countries.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, the deceit that is among them.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O community, what will happen to them.
Literal Translation
So hear, O nations, and know, O assembly, that which is coming on them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare therfore ye Gentiles, and thou congregacion shalt knowe, what I haue deuysed for them.
American Standard Version
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Bible in Basic English
So then, give ear, you nations, and ••• Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is against them.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore heare ye nations, and know, O Congregation what is among them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare therefore ye gentiles, and thou congregation shalt know what I haue deuised for them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.
English Revised Version
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor, hethene men, here ye, and, thou congregacioun, knowe, hou grete thingis Y schal do to hem.
Update Bible Version
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them.
New English Translation
So the Lord said, "Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.
New King James Version
Therefore hear, you nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.
New Living Translation
"Therefore, listen to this, all you nations. Take note of my people's situation.
New Life Bible
So hear, O nations, and know, O people, what will happen to them.
New Revised Standard
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore, hear O ye nations, - And take knowledge O assembly, Of that which befalleth them:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great things I will do to them.
Revised Standard Version
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O company, That which [is] upon them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore hear, O nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.

Contextual Overview

18 So the Lord said, "Listen, you nations, and learn what is going to happen to my people. 19 Listen, earth! As punishment for all their schemes I am bringing ruin on these people, because they have rejected my teaching and have not obeyed my words. 20 What do I care about the incense they bring me from Sheba, or the spices from a distant land? I will not accept their offerings or be pleased with their sacrifices. 21 And so I will make these people stumble and fall. Parents and children will die, and so will friends and neighbors." 22 The Lord says, "People are coming from a country in the north; a mighty nation far away is preparing for war. 23 They have taken up their bows and swords; they are cruel and merciless. They sound like the roaring sea, as they ride their horses. They are ready for battle against Jerusalem." 24 "We have heard the news," say the people of Jerusalem, "and our hands hang limp; we are seized by anguish and pain like a woman in labor. 25 We don't dare go to the countryside or walk on the roads, because our enemies are armed and terror is all around us." 26 The Lord says to his people, "Put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter tears as you would for an only child, because the one who comes to destroy you will suddenly attack. 27 Jeremiah, test my people, as you would test metal, and find out what they are like.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hear: Jeremiah 4:10, Jeremiah 31:10, Deuteronomy 29:24-28, Psalms 50:4-6, Isaiah 5:3, Micah 6:5

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:16 - ye Jeremiah 50:2 - Declare

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God,
Genesis 6:16
Make a roof for the boat and leave a space of 18 inches between the roof and the sides. Build it with three decks and put a door in the side.
Genesis 7:1
The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.
Genesis 7:7
He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.
Genesis 7:13
On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
Genesis 17:4
"I make this covenant with you: I promise that you will be the ancestor of many nations.
Genesis 17:7
"I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
Genesis 17:21
But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year."
Isaiah 26:20
Go into your houses, my people, and shut the door behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until God's anger is over.
Hebrews 11:7
It was faith that made Noah hear God's warnings about things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a boat in which he and his family were saved. As a result, the world was condemned, and Noah received from God the righteousness that comes by faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore hear, ye nations,.... Since the Jews refused to hearken to the word of the Lord, the Gentiles are called upon to hear it, as in Acts 13:45, this is a rebuke to the Jews, that the Gentiles would hear, when they would not:

and know, O congregation; either of Israel, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it; or of the nations of the world, the multitude of them; or the church of God in the midst of them:

what is among them; among the Jews: either what evil is among them; what sins and transgressions are committed by them; which were the cause of the Lord's threatening them with sore judgments, and bringing them upon them; so Jarchi and Kimchi interpret the words; to which agrees the Targum,

"and let the congregation of Israel know their sins;''

or the punishments the Lord inflicted on them: so the Vulgate Latin version, "and know, O congregation, what I will do unto them"; which sense is confirmed by what follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God summons three witnesses to hear His sentence.

(1) the Gentiles.

(2) all mankind, Jews and Gentiles.

(3) nature (see Jeremiah 6:19).

What is among them - Rather, “what happens” in them; i. e., “Know what great things I will do to them.”


 
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