The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
5:1 Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in
the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and
I will pardon her. 5:2Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely. 5:3O Yahweh,
don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have
consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder
than a rock; they have refused to return. 5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for
they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God: 5:5I will get me to the great men, and
will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with
one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. 5:6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill
them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities;
everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and
their backsliding is increased. 5:7How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and
sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and
assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses. 5:8They were as fed horses roaming at
large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife. 5:9Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh;
and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 5:10Go you up on her walls, and destroy;
but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's. 5:11For the house of
Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Yahweh. 5:12They have
denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword
nor famine: 5:13and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be
done to them. 5:14Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, Because you speak this word,
behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
5:15Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a mighty
nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know, neither understand what
they say. 5:16Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men. 5:17They shall eat up your
harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your
flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; they shall beat down your
fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword. 5:18But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will
not make a full end with you. 5:19It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God
done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served
foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours. 5:20Declare you
this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 5:21Hear now this, foolish people, and
without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear: 5:22Don't you
fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound
of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves,
yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it. 5:23But this people has a revolting
and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 5:24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now
fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves
to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. 5:25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and
your sins have withheld good from you. 5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they
watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are
their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich. 5:28They are grew fat,
they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the
fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge. 5:29Shall I not visit for
these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 5:30A wonderful
and horrible thing is happen in the land: 5:31the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule
by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?
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