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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[a] 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.[b]
    But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’[c]
17 And I raised up watchmen over you:
    ‘Listen attentively to the sound of a horn.’
    But they said, ‘We will not listen attentively.’

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Footnotes

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