Jeremiah 5:14-31 - Coming Judgment
14 Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Hosts says:
I am going to make My words
become fire in your mouth.
These people are the wood,
and the fire will consume them.
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.
they are all mighty warriors.
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
18 “But even in those days”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will not finish you off.
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you foolish and senseless
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t hear.
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.
They have turned aside and have gone away.
‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,
who gives the rain,
who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
Your sins have withheld My bounty from you,
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.
They set a trap;
they catch men.
so their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
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.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself
on such a nation as this?
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has taken place in the land.
and the priests rule by their own authority.
My people love it like this.
But what will you do at the end of it?