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Jeremiah - ch 5 v 21 - 31
- Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
- Don't you fear me? says Yahweh: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.
- But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
- Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
- Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
- For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
- As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
- They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.
- Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land:
- 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 of it?
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