11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord: I am weary with holding it: [a]I will pour it out upon the [b]children in the street, and likewise upon the assembly of the young men: for the husband shall even be taken with the wife, and the aged with him that is full of days.

12 And their houses with their lands, and wives also shall be turned unto strangers: for I will stretch out mine hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.

13 For from the least of them, even unto the greatest of them, everyone is given unto covetousness, and from the Prophet even unto the Priest, they all deal falsely.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:11 As the Lord had given him his word to be as a fire of his indignation to burn the wicked, Jer. 5:14, so he kindleth it now when he seeth that all remedies are past.
  2. Jeremiah 6:11 None shall be spared.

11 But I am full of the wrath(A) of the Lord,
    and I cannot hold it in.(B)

“Pour it out on the children in the street
    and on the young men(C) gathered together;
both husband and wife will be caught in it,
    and the old, those weighed down with years.(D)
12 Their houses will be turned over to others,(E)
    together with their fields and their wives,(F)
when I stretch out my hand(G)
    against those who live in the land,”
declares the Lord.
13 “From the least to the greatest,
    all(H) are greedy for gain;(I)
prophets and priests alike,
    all practice deceit.(J)

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