Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 5:1 (show verse)
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and find out and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that execute judgment, that seek the truth; and I will pardon the city.
Jeremiah 5:2 (show verse)
And if they should say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.
Jeremiah 5:3 (show verse)
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they did not feel it; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive chastisement; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah 5:4 (show verse)
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they have become foolish; for they do not know the way of the LORD nor the judgment of their God.
Jeremiah 5:5 (show verse)
I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 5:6 (show verse)
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the desert shall destroy them and a tiger shall lie in wait over their cities; anyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces because their rebellions have been multiplied, and their backslidings are increased.
Jeremiah 5:7 (show verse)
How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy sons have forsaken me and sworn by them that are not gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah 5:8 (show verse)
They were as fed horses in the morning; each one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Jeremiah 5:9 (show verse)
Shall I not visit for these things? said the LORD; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:10 (show verse)
Go ye up upon her walls and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements for they are not the LORD's.
Jeremiah 5:11 (show verse)
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have made a firm decision to rebel against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:12 (show verse)
They have denied the LORD and said, He is not; and evil shall not come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine;
Jeremiah 5:13 (show verse)
but the prophets shall become like wind, and there is no word in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Jeremiah 5:14 (show verse)
Therefore thus hath the LORD God of the hosts said: Because ye have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Jeremiah 5:15 (show verse)
Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from afar, O house of Israel, saith the LORD; it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou dost not know, neither dost thou understand what they say.
Jeremiah 5:16 (show verse)
Their quiver is as an open sepulcher; they are all mighty men.
Jeremiah 5:17 (show verse)
And they shall eat up thine harvest and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees; and thy fenced cities, in which thou dost trust, they shall bring to nothing with the sword.
Jeremiah 5:18 (show verse)
Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
Jeremiah 5:19 (show verse)
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why does the LORD our God do all these things unto us? Then thou shalt answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Jeremiah 5:20 (show verse)
Declare this in the house of Jacob and publish it in Judah, saying,
Jeremiah 5:21 (show verse)
Hear now this, O foolish people and without heart, who have eyes and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:
Jeremiah 5:22 (show verse)
Do ye not fear me? saith the LORD; will ye not tremble at my presence, who placed the sand for the bound of the sea by an eternal order, which cannot be broken? Storms shall raise themselves up, yet they shall not prevail; their waves shall roar, yet they shall not pass over it.
Jeremiah 5:23 (show verse)
But this people have a false and rebellious heart; they turned and went.
Jeremiah 5:24 (show verse)
Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; he shall keep us with the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Jeremiah 5:25 (show verse)
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.
Jeremiah 5:26 (show verse)
For among my people were found wicked men: they lay in wait as he that sets snares; they set a trap of perdition to catch men.
Jeremiah 5:27 (show verse)
As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; thus they became great and rich.
Jeremiah 5:28 (show verse)
They are become fat; they shine; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they did not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless; with all this they made themselves prosperous; and they did not judge the cause of the poor.
Jeremiah 5:29 (show verse)
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:30 (show verse)
A horrible and ugly thing is committed in the land:
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Jeremiah 5:31 (show verse)
The prophets prophesied falsely, and the priests bore rule by their hands; and my people love to have it so. What will ye do in the end thereof?