Jeremiah 6:18

Modern

Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.

Traditional

Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

Literal

Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

Latin

Ideo audite, gentes, et cognosce, congregatio, quanta ego faciam eis.

Hebrew

English

Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.

All the nations would know that disaster had come to the Lord’s people because they rejected his word (Jeremiah 19:3; Proverbs 1:31; Isaiah 1:2).

The Lord urged the people to repent and warned them about the terrible consequences if they did not.

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah 4:10
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
Isaiah 5:3
“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
Jeremiah 31:10
Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
Micah 6:5
My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
Deuteronomy 29:24–28
So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
Psalm 50:4–6
He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people: