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New Revised Standard

Jeremiah 6:18

Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.

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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.
Good News Translation
So the Lord said, "Listen, you nations, and learn what is going to happen to my people.
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.
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 Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them. 19 Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my teaching, they have rejected it. 20 Of what use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me. 21 Therefore thus says the Lord : See, I am laying before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; parents and children together, neighbor and friend shall perish. 22 Thus says the Lord : See, a people is coming from the land of the north, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth. 23 They grasp the bow and the javelin, they are cruel and have no mercy, their sound is like the roaring sea; they ride on horses, equipped like a warrior for battle, against you, O daughter Zion! 24 "We have heard news of them, our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor. 25 Do not go out into the field, or walk on the road; for the enemy has a sword, terror is on every side." 26 O my poor people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only child, most bitter lamentation: for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us. 27 I have made you a tester and a refiner among my people so that you may know and test their ways.

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
These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:16
Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and put the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:13
On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark,
Genesis 17:4
"As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:7
I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year."
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with 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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