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14 And they have treated the wound of my people lightly,
    saying,[a] ‘Peace, peace,’ but there is no peace.
15 Have they acted ashamed, for they have committed a detestable thing?
    Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated.
Therefore[b] they will fall among those who fall at the time I punish them,
    they will stumble,” says Yahweh.
16 Thus says Yahweh: “Stand at the roads and look,
    and ask for the ancient paths, where the way of the good is,
and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves.[c]
    But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:14 Literally “to say”
  2. Jeremiah 6:15 Literally “To thus”
  3. Jeremiah 6:16 Hebrew “inner self”
  4. Jeremiah 6:16 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation