The Depravity of Jerusalem
4 Then I thought:
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Therefore, a lion from the forest will strike them down.(O)
A wolf from an arid plain will ravage them.
A leopard(P) keeps watch over their cities.
Anyone who leaves them will be torn to pieces
because their rebellious acts are many,(Q)
their unfaithful deeds numerous.(R)
A wolf from an arid plain will ravage them.
A leopard(P) keeps watch over their cities.
Anyone who leaves them will be torn to pieces
because their rebellious acts are many,(Q)
their unfaithful deeds numerous.(R)
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Should I not punish them for these things?(Y)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself(Z)
on such a nation as this?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself(Z)
on such a nation as this?
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They, the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
have dealt very treacherously with Me.(AD)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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13 have dealt very treacherously with Me.(AD)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
The prophets become only wind,
for the Lord’s word is not in them.
This will in fact happen to them.
for the Lord’s word is not in them.
This will in fact happen to them.
Coming Judgment
18 “But even in those days”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will not finish you off.(AM)
19 When people ask, ‘For what offense has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You will respond to them: Just as you abandoned Me(AN) and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.(AO)
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Do you not fear Me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Do you not tremble before Me,
the One who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,
an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?(AR)
The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.
They roar but cannot pass over it.
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25 This is the Lord’s declaration.
Do you not tremble before Me,
the One who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,
an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?(AR)
The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.
They roar but cannot pass over it.
Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.
Your sins have withheld My bounty from you,(AX)
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27 Your sins have withheld My bounty from you,(AX)
Like a cage full of birds,
so their houses are full of deceit.(BA)
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
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29 so their houses are full of deceit.(BA)
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
Should I not punish them for these things?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself(BD)
on such a nation as this?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself(BD)
on such a nation as this?
Footnotes:
a.
Jeremiah 5:7: Or adultery and trooped to the, or adultery and lodged at the; Hb obscure
b.
Jeremiah 5:8: Lit well-equipped; Hb obscure
c.
Jeremiah 5:8: Lit early-rising; Hb obscure
d.
Jeremiah 5:12: Lit He does not exist
e.
Jeremiah 5:21: Lit without heart
f.
Jeremiah 5:26: Hb obscure
Cross references:
R.
Jeremiah 5:6:
Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 3:8; Jeremiah 3:11-12; Jeremiah 3:22; Jeremiah 14:7; Jeremiah 30:15; Amos 5:12
AC.
Jeremiah 5:10:
Hosea 1:9
AL.
Jeremiah 5:17:
Hosea 8:14
AM.
Jeremiah 5:18:
2 Chronicles 12:12; Jeremiah 4:27; Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 30:11; Ezekiel 11:13; Ezekiel 20:17; Romans 11:1-5
AN.
Jeremiah 5:19:
Deuteronomy 28:20; Deuteronomy 29:24-25; Deuteronomy 31:16; Judges 2:12; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 1:28; Jeremiah 1:16; Jeremiah 2:13; Jeremiah 2:17; Jeremiah 2:19; Jeremiah 16:11; Jeremiah 17:13
AQ.
Jeremiah 5:21:
Psalm 115:5-6; Psalm 135:16-17; Isaiah 6:9; Isaiah 42:20; Ezekiel 12:2; Matthew 13:14; Mark 8:18
AV.
Jeremiah 5:24:
Joel 2:23
AX.
Jeremiah 5:25:
Isaiah 59:2
AZ.
Jeremiah 5:26:
Psalm 10:9
BA.
Jeremiah 5:27:
Psalm 10:7; Psalm 50:19; Isaiah 3:14; Isaiah 5:18; Isaiah 30:12; Jeremiah 8:5; Acts 13:10; Romans 1:29
BC.
Jeremiah 5:28:
Deuteronomy 24:14; Job 29:16; Job 30:25; Job 31:19; Psalm 82:3-4; Psalm 140:12; Proverbs 14:31; Proverbs 31:9; Isaiah 1:23; Acts 4:34
BE.
Jeremiah 5:30:
Hosea 6:10