Jeremiah 6:21

So, this is what the Lord says: ‘I will assuredly ¹  make these people stumble to their doom. ²  Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. ³  Friends and neighbors will die.’

2Ch 36:17; Isa 8:14; Isa 9:14-17; Isa 24:2,3; Jer 9:21,22; Jer 13:16; Jer 15:2-9; Jer 16:3-9; Jer 18:21; Jer 19:7-9; Jer 21:7; La 2:20-22; Eze 3:20; Eze 5:10; Eze 9:5-7; Ro 9:33; Ro 11:9; 1Pe 2:8

¹ tn This is an attempt to render the Hebrew particle rendered “behold” joined to the first person pronoun.

² tn Heb “I will put stumbling blocks in front of these people.” In this context the stumbling blocks are the invading armies.

³ tn The words “and fall to their destruction” are implicit in the metaphor and are supplied in the translation for clarity.