Daily Tanach Tuesday 8th Tishreiy Sefer Yirmiyah Chapter 6 Part 1: Judgment and Warning from the North

Author: Rabbi Yaakov GoldsteinPublished: September 30, 2025

šŸ“Æ Evil from the North and a Great Calamity ā€œSound the shofar in Tekoa raise a standard over Beth-hakeremā€ — for destruction comes from the north. ā€œThe comely and delicate one have I destroyedā€ — daughter of Zion shall be besieged. Shepherds pitch tents around her; war preparations intensify: ā€œArise

šŸ“Æ Evil from the North and a Great Calamity

  • ā€œSound the shofar in Tekoa… raise a standard over Beth-hakeremā€ — for destruction comes from the north.
  • ā€œThe comely and delicate one have I destroyedā€ — daughter of Zion shall be besieged.
  • Shepherds pitch tents around her; war preparations intensify: ā€œArise, let us go up at noontime… at night let us destroy her palacesā€.

style="text-align: justify">šŸ° Siege Upon the City of Oppression

  • Hashem commands: ā€œCut trees and cast a siege mound on Jerusalemā€ — for oppression fills her midst.
  • ā€œAs a well lets its water flow, so has she let her evil flowā€ — violence, spoil, sickness, and wounds abound.
  • A warning: ā€œBe corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated… lest I make you a desolationā€.

style="text-align: justify">šŸ‡ Gleaning the Remnant

  • ā€œThey shall thoroughly glean like a vine the remnant of Israelā€ — judgment will be thorough.
  • But ā€œto whom shall I speak and warn?ā€ — their ears are clogged, the word of Hashem is a disgrace to them.

style="text-align: justify">šŸ”„ Fury Unleashed

  • Hashem’s fury cannot be contained: ā€œI will pour it out upon the babes… the young men… the old manā€.
  • ā€œTheir houses shall be turned over to others… for I will stretch out My handā€.
  • ā€œFrom smallest to greatest, all commit robbery… prophet to priest, all deal falselyā€.

style="text-align: justify">šŸ•Šļø False Peace and Shamelessness

  • ā€œThey healed the breach… saying ā€˜Peace, peace,’ but there is no peaceā€.
  • ā€œThey shall be put to shame… but they do not know to feel disgraceā€ — they will fall among the slain.

style="text-align: justify">šŸ›¤ļø The Old Paths Rejected

  • Hashem pleads: ā€œStand on the roads… ask of the paths of old… go on it and find restā€ — but they said, ā€œWe will not goā€.
  • ā€œHearken to the sound of the shofarā€ — but they said, ā€œWe will not hearkenā€.
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