Focused Passage
Stand at the Crossroads: False Peace and Rejected Silver
The chapter moves from urgent flight before northern invasion, to Jerusalem's ripeness for siege, to the LORD's grief over a people who refuse warning, to the rejection of false peace and empty worship, and finally to the image of Judah as rejected silver after failed refining.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
6 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
7 As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
8 Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
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