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Jeremiah
Chapter
5
1
Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
and
see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof,
if
you can find a man,
if
there be any who executes judgment,
who
seeks the truth;
and
I will pardon it.
2
And though they say, Jehovah/God lives;
surely
they swear falsely.
3 O Jehovah/God, are not your eyes upon the truth?
You
have stricken them,
but
they have not grieved.
You
have consumed them,
but
they have refused to receive correction.
They
have made their faces harder than a rock;
they
have refused to return.
4
Therefore I said,
Surely
these are poor; they are foolish.
For
they know not the Way of Jehovah/God,
nor
the judgment of their 'Elohiym/Godhead.
5
I will get me unto the great men,
and
will speak unto them;
for
they have known the way of Jehovah/God,
and
the judgment of their 'Elohiym/Godhead.
But these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
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 who goes out there shall be torn in pieces
because
their transgressions are many,
and
their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon you for this?
Your
children have forsaken Me,
and
sworn by those who are no gods/'elohiym.
When
I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery,
and
assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
8 They were as fed horses in the morning.
Every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these things? said Jehovah/God.
And shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10
Go you up upon her walls, and destroy;
but
make not a full end.
Take
away her battlements;
for
they are not Jehovah/God's.
{Verses
11-14: Description of Jewish Believers in Jerusalem 67AD}
11
For the house of Israel
and
the house of Judah
have
dealt very treacherously against me,
said
Jehovah/God.
12
They have belied Jehovah/God, and said,
It
is not He.
Neither shall evil come upon us.
Neither shall we see sword nor famine.
13
And the prophets shall become wind,
and
the word is not in them.
Thus shall it be done unto them.
14
Wherefore thus said Jehovah/God God of the armies/hosts,
Because
you speak this word, behold,
I
will make My Words in your mouth fire,
and
this people wood,
and
it shall devour them.
15
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far,
O
house of Israel, said Jehovah/God.
It
is a mighty nation,
it
is an ancient nation,
a
nation whose language you do not know,
neither
understand what they say.
16
Their quiver is as an open sepulcher,
they
are all mighty men.
17
And they shall eat up your harvest,
and
your bread,
which
your sons and your daughters should eat.
They shall eat up your flocks and your herds.
They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees.
They
shall impoverish your fenced cities,
wherein
you trusted,
with
the sword.
18
Nevertheless in those days,
said
Jehovah/God,
I
will not make a full end with you.
19
And it shall come to pass,
when
you shall say,
Wherefore
does Jehovah/God
our
Elohiym/Godhead all these things unto us?
Then
shall you answer them,
Like
as you have forsaken me,
and
served strange gods in your land,
so
shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
20
Declare this in the house of Jacob,
and
publish it in Judah, saying, 21
Hear
now this, O foolish people,
and
without understanding.
Who have eyes, and see not.
Who have ears, and hear not.
22 Fear you not me? said Jehovah/God.
Will
you 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?
23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart.
They are revolted and gone.
24
Neither say they in their heart,
Let
us now fear Jehovah/God our Elohiym/Godhead,
that
gives rain,
both
the former and the latter, in his season.
He reserves unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25
Your iniquities have turned away these things,
and
your sins have withheld good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men.
They lay wait, as he who sets snares.
They set a trap, they catch men.
27
As a cage is full of birds,
so
are their houses full of deceit.
Therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28
They are waxen fat,
they
shine.
Yes, 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.
29 Shall I not visit for these things?
said Jehovah/God.
Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land.
31
The prophets prophesy falsely,
and
the priests bear rule by their means.
And my people love to have it so.
And what will you do in the end thereof?
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