JER-5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and

see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye

can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that

seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

JER-5:2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear

falsely.

JER-5:3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast

stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed

them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have

made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

JER-5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are

foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the

judgment of their God.

JER-5:5 I will get me 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.

JER-5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them,

[and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall

watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall

be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and]

their backslidings are increased.

JER-5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have

forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had

fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and

assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

JER-5:8 They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one

neighed after his neighbour's wife.

JER-5:9 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD:

and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

JER-5:10 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. JER-5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah

have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

JER-5:12 They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he;

neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor

famine:

JER-5:13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is]

not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

JER-5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye

speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire,

and this people wood, and it shall devour them. JER-5:15 Lo, I

will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith

the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a

nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest

what they say.

JER-5:16 Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all

mighty men.

JER-5:17 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: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou

trustedst, with the sword.

JER-5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not

make a full end with you.

JER-5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore

doeth the LORD our God all these [things] unto us? then shalt

thou 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.

JER-5:20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in

Judah, saying,

JER-5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without

understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears,

and hear not:

JER-5:22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at

my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the

sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though

the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail;

though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

JER-5:23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart;

 they are revolted and gone.

JER-5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the

LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter,

in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the

harvest.

JER-5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and

your sins have withholden good [things] from you.

JER-5:26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay

wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

JER-5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full

of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

JER-5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the

deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the

fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they

not judge.

JER-5:29 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD:

shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

JER-5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

JER-5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear

rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and

what will ye do in the end thereof? 

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