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JER-5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and
see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye
can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that
seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
JER-5:2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear
falsely.
JER-5:3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast
stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed
them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have
made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
JER-5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are
foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the
judgment of their God.
JER-5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto
them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the
judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke,
[and] burst the bonds.
JER-5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them,
[and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall
watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall
be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and]
their backslidings are increased.
JER-5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have
forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had
fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and
assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
JER-5:8 They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one
neighed after his neighbour's wife.
JER-5:9 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD:
and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
JER-5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a
full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the
LORD'S. JER-5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
JER-5:12 They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he;
neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor
famine:
JER-5:13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is]
not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
JER-5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye
speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire,
and this people wood, and it shall devour them. JER-5:15 Lo, I
will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith
the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a
nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest
what they say.
JER-5:16 Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all
mighty men.
JER-5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread,
[which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up
thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy
fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou
trustedst, with the sword.
JER-5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not
make a full end with you.
JER-5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore
doeth the LORD our God all these [things] unto us? then shalt
thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served
strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land
[that is] not yours.
JER-5:20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in
Judah, saying,
JER-5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears,
and hear not:
JER-5:22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at
my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the
sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though
the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail;
though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
JER-5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart;
they are revolted and gone.
JER-5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the
LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter,
in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the
harvest.
JER-5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and
your sins have withholden good [things] from you.
JER-5:26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay
wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
JER-5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full
of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
JER-5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the
deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the
fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they
not judge.
JER-5:29 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD:
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
JER-5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
JER-5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear
rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and
what will ye do in the end thereof?
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