Jeremiah 6:5
Good News Translation
We'll attack by night; we'll destroy the city's fortresses."

New Revised Standard Version
“Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!”

Contemporary English Version
we'll attack after dark and destroy its fortresses."

New American Bible
“Up! let us rush upon her by night, destroy her palaces!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.

let us destroy.

Jeremiah 9:21 For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

Jeremiah 17:27 But if you will not hearken to me, to sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry burdens, and not to bring them in by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day: I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 52:13 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.

2 Chronicles 36:19 And the enemies set fire to the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burnt all the towers, and what soever was precious they destroyed.

Psalm 48:3 In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.

Isaiah 32:14 For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks.

Hosea 8:14 And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Amos 2:5 And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

Amos 3:10,11 And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses. . . .

Zechariah 11:1 Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars.

hew.

Deuteronomy 20:19,20 When thou hast besieged a city a long time, and hath compassed it with bulwarks, to take it, thou shalt not cut down the trees that may be eaten of, neither shalt thou spoil the country round about with axes: for it is a tree, and not a man, neither can it increase the number of them that fight against thee. . . .

cast a mount.

Jeremiah 32:24 Behold works are built up against the city to take it: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken, is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest.

Jeremiah 33:4 For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to the houses of this city, and to the houses of the king of Juda, which are destroyed, and to the bulwarks, and to the sword.

Jeremiah 52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built forts against it round about.

Isaiah 37:33 Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.

Ezekiel 21:22 On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in howling, to set engines against the gates, to cast up a mount, to build forts.

this.

Jeremiah 5:9,29 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation? . . .

wholly.

2 Kings 21:16 Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

Isaiah 59:13,14 In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression: we have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood. . . .

Ezekiel 7:23 Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity.

Amos 4:1 Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.

Amos 8:5,6 Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail, . . .

Zephaniah 3:1-3 Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove. . . .

James 5:1-5 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

Context
Jerusalem's Final Warning
4Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer. 5Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.6For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.…
Cross References
Isaiah 32:14
For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks.

Jeremiah 52:13
And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.

Obadiah 1:1
And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

Jeremiah 6:4
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