Jeremiah Chapter 5
5:1 | Run ye to and fro through the streets of ![]() ![]() ![]() |
5:2 | And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. |
5:3 | O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the ![]() |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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' ![]() |
5:8 | They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour' wife. |
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? |
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' |
5:11 | For the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
5:12 | They have belied the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall ![]() ![]() ![]() |
5:13 | And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. |
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. |
5:15 | Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O ![]() ![]() |
5:16 | Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men. |
5:17 | And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy ![]() ![]() |
5:18 | Nevertheless in those ![]() |
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 ![]() |
5:20 | Declare this in the ![]() |
5:21 | Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and ![]() |
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? |
5:23 | But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. |
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. |
5:25 | Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withholden good [things] from you. |
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. |
5:27 | As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their ![]() |
5:28 | They are waxen fat, they shine: ![]() ![]() |
5:29 | Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
5:30 | A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; |
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 ![]() |