Lexicon :: Strong's H6435 - pēn

otherwise, the one who hears will disgrace you,

and you’ll never live it down.[fn]

Don’t answer a fool according to his foolishness

or you’ll be like him yourself.

Don’t add to his words,

or he will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.

Otherwise, he will drink,

forget what is decreed,

and pervert justice for all the oppressed.[fn]

Make the minds[fn] of these people dull;

deafen their ears and blind their eyes;

otherwise they might see with their eyes

and hear with their ears,

understand with their minds,

turn back, and be healed.

I am the LORD, who watches over it

to water it regularly.

So that no one disturbs it,

I watch over it night and day.

So now, do not scoff,

or your shackles will become stronger.

Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Armies

a decree of destruction for the whole land.

“Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, ‘The LORD will rescue us.’ Has any one of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?

“therefore I declared to you long ago.

I announced it to you before it occurred,

so you could not claim, ‘My idol caused them;

my carved image and cast idol control them.’

“Now, get ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them or I will cause you to cower before them.

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD;

remove the foreskin of your hearts,

men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.

Otherwise, my wrath will break out like fire

and burn with no one to extinguish it

because of your evil deeds.

Be warned, Jerusalem,

or I will turn away from you;

I will make you a desolation,

a land without inhabitants.

Discipline me, LORD, but with justice —

not in your anger,

or you will reduce me to nothing.

“House of David, this is what the LORD says:

Administer justice every morning,

and rescue the victim of robbery

from his oppressor,

or my anger will flare up like fire

and burn unquenchably

because of your evil deeds.

But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am worried about the Judeans who have defected to the Chaldeans. They may hand me over to the Judeans to abuse me.”

May you not become cowardly and fearful

when the report is proclaimed in the land,

for the report will come one year,

and then another the next year.

There will be violence in the land

with ruler against ruler.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked

and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.

I will make her like a desert

and like a parched land,

and I will let her die of thirst.

Seek the LORD and live,

or he will spread like fire

throughout the house of Joseph;

it will consume everything

with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

“And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land[fn] with a curse.”