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Jeremiah 5:1 (show verse)
Look and take note;
search in her squares.
If you find one person,
any who acts justly,
who seeks to be faithful,
then I will forgive her.
Jeremiah 5:2 (show verse)
they are swearing falsely.
Jeremiah 5:3 (show verse)
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They made their faces harder than rock,
and they refused to return.
Jeremiah 5:4 (show verse)
Then I thought:
They are just the poor;
they have played the fool.
For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
they have played the fool.
For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
Jeremiah 5:5 (show verse)
and speak to them.
Surely they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
However, these also had broken the yoke
and torn off the chains.
Jeremiah 5:6 (show verse)
A wolf from an arid plain will ravage them.
A leopard
Anyone who leaves them will be torn to pieces
because their rebellious acts are many,
their unfaithful deeds numerous.
Jeremiah 5:7 (show verse)
Your children have abandoned Me
and sworn by those who are not gods.
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;
they gashed themselves
Jeremiah 5:8 (show verse)
each neighing
Jeremiah 5:9 (show verse)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself
on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:10 (show verse)
but do not finish them off.
Prune away her shoots,
for they do not belong to the Lord.
Jeremiah 5:11 (show verse)
have dealt very treacherously with Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 5:12 (show verse)
and insisted, “It won’t happen.
Harm won’t come to us;
we won’t see sword or famine.”
Jeremiah 5:13 (show verse)
for the Lord’s word is not in them.
This will in fact happen to them.
Jeremiah 5:14 (show verse)
Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Hosts says:
Because you have spoken this word,
I am going to make My words
become fire in your mouth.
These people are the wood,
and the fire will consume them.
I am going to make My words
become fire in your mouth.
These people are the wood,
and the fire will consume them.
Jeremiah 5:15 (show verse)
from far away against you,
house of Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
It is an established nation,
an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know
and whose speech you do not understand.
Jeremiah 5:16 (show verse)
they are all mighty warriors.
Jeremiah 5:17 (show verse)
They will consume your sons and your daughters.
They will consume your flocks and your herds.
They will consume your vines and your fig trees.
They will destroy with the sword
your fortified cities
Jeremiah 5:18 (show verse)
“But even in those days”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will not finish you off.
Jeremiah 5:19 (show verse)
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 and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Jeremiah 5:20 (show verse)
“Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah, saying:
Jeremiah 5:21 (show verse)
you foolish and senseless
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t hear.
Jeremiah 5:22 (show verse)
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?
The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.
They roar but cannot pass over it.
Jeremiah 5:23 (show verse)
They have turned aside and have gone away.
Jeremiah 5:24 (show verse)
‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,
who gives the rain,
who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
Jeremiah 5:25 (show verse)
Your sins have withheld My bounty from you,
Jeremiah 5:26 (show verse)
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.
They set a trap;
they catch men.
Jeremiah 5:27 (show verse)
so their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
Jeremiah 5:28 (show verse)
They have also excelled in evil matters.
They have not taken up cases,
such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper,
and they have not defended the rights of the needy.
Jeremiah 5:29 (show verse)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself
on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:30 (show verse)
has taken place in the land.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 5:31 (show verse)
and the priests rule by their own authority.
My people love it like this.
But what will you do at the end of it?