Jeremiah 5:20-31 - God Warns His People
20 "Declare this in the house of Jacob, and proclaim it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear this please, foolish and {senseless} people, {who have eyes} but do not see, {who have ears} but do not hear.' 22 Do you not revere me?" {declares} Yahweh, "Do you not tremble {before me}? For I have placed [the] sand [as] a boundary for the sea, {as an everlasting limit}, and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it. 23 But for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and have gone [away]. 24 And they do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear please Yahweh our God, the [one who] gives [the] autumn rain and [the] spring rain in its season, {the set times of the harvest} he keeps for us.' 25 Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the good from you. 26 For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans. 27 Like a cage full of birds, so their houses [are] full of fraud. {Therefore} they have become great, and they have become rich. 28 They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend. 29 Because of these [things] shall I not punish?" {declares} Yahweh, "and on a nation who [is] like this, shall I not take revenge?
30 A horrific event and something horrible has happened in the land. 31 The prophets prophesy {falsely}, and the priests rule {by their own authority}, and my people love [it] so much. But what will you do {when the end comes}?