Jeremiah 5:1-13 - The Depravity Of Jerusalem
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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.
they are swearing falsely.
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.
4 Then I thought:
they have played the fool.
For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
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.
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.
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Your children have abandoned Me
and sworn by those who are not gods.
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;
they gashed themselves
each neighing
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself
on such a nation as this?
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but do not finish them off.
Prune away her shoots,
for they do not belong to the Lord.
have dealt very treacherously with Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
and insisted, “It won’t happen.
Harm won’t come to us;
we won’t see sword or famine.”
for the Lord’s word is not in them.
This will in fact happen to them.