🏔️ Jeremiah 6

Jeremiah 6 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” Jeremiah 6 opens with these words: ““Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth…” The line to keep is Jeremiah 6:3: “Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”” Carry the word “shepherds” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Jeremiah 6:3: “Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Jeremiah 6? Then try this: Read “Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.