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Jeremiah - ch 5 v 1 - 20
- Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can fins a man that executeth judgement, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.
- And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely.
- O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.
- But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.
- I will go therefore to the great men, and I will speak to them: for they known the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God: and behold these have together broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.
- Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening, hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.
- How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house.
- They are become as amorous horses and stallions, every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
- Shall I not visit for these things, sayeth the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
- Scale down the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's.
- For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
- They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.
- The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.
- Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: Because you have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and this people as wood, and it shall devour them.
- Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.
- Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.
- And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.
- Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.
- And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.
- Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish it in Juda, saying:
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