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Jeremiah 5
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5"Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.H7751H2351H3389H7200H3045H1245H7339H4672H376H3426H6213H4941H1245H530H5545
2Although they say, 'As surely as the LORD lives,' still they are swearing falsely."H559H3068H2416H7650H8267
3O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.H3068H5869H530H5221H2342H3615H3985H3947H4148H6440H2388H5553H3985H7725
4I thought, "These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.H559H1800H2973H3045H1870H3068H4941H430
5So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God." But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.H3212H1419H1696H3045H1870H3068H4941H430H3162H7665H5923H5423H4147
6Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many.H738H3293H5221H2061H6160H7703H5246H8245H5892H3318H2007H2963H6588H7231H4878H6105
7"Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.H335H5545H2063H1121H5800H7650H3808H430H7650H5003H1413H2181H1004
8They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man's wife.H2109H5483H7904H376H6670H7453H802
9Should I not punish them for this?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?H6485H5002H3068H5315H5358H1471
10"Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the LORD.H5927H8284H7843H6213H3617H5493H5189H3068
11The house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to me," declares the LORD.H1004H3478H1004H3063H898H898H5002H3068
12They have lied about the LORD; they said, "He will do nothing! No harm will come to us; we will never see sword or famine.H3584H3068H559H7451H935H7200H2719H7458
13The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them."H5030H7307H1696H6213
14Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: "Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.H559H3068H430H6635H1696H1697H5414H1697H6310H784H5971H6086H398
15O house of Israel," declares the LORD, "I am bringing a distant nation against you--an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand.H935H1471H4801H1004H3478H5002H3068H386H1471H5769H1471H1471H3956H3045H8085H1696
16Their quivers are like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.H827H6605H6913H1368
17They will devour your harvests and food, devour your sons and daughters; they will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.H398H7105H3899H1121H1323H398H398H6629H1241H398H1612H8384H7567H4013H5892H2007H982H2719
18"Yet even in those days," declares the LORD, "I will not destroy you completely.H3117H5002H3068H6213H3617
19And when the people ask, 'Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?' you will tell them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.'H559H8478H4100H6213H3068H430H559H5800H5647H5236H430H776H5647H2114H776
20"Announce this to the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:H5046H1004H3290H8085H3063H559
21Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:H8085H5530H5971H3820H5869H7200H241H8085
22Should you not fear me?" declares the LORD. "Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.H3372H5002H3068H2342H6440H7760H2344H1366H3220H5769H2706H5674H1530H1607H3201H1993H5674
23But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away.H5971H5637H4784H3820H5493H3212
24They do not say to themselves, 'Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.'H559H3824H3372H3068H430H5414H1653H3138H4456H6256H8104H2708H7620H7105
25Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.H5771H5186H2403H4513H2896
26"Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch men.H5971H4672H7563H7789H7918H3353H5324H4889H3920H582
27Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerfulH3619H4392H5775H1004H4392H4820H1431H6238
28and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not plead the case of the fatherless to win it, they do not defend the rights of the poor.H8080H6245H5674H1697H7451H1777H1779H3490H6743H4941H34H8199
29Should I not punish them for this?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?H6485H5002H3068H5315H5358H1471
30"A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land:H8047H8186H1961H776
31The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?H5030H5012H8267H3548H7287H3027H5971H157H6213H319


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