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CHAPTER 5
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad
places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be
any
that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth;
and I will pardon it.
2
And though they say, The L
ORD
liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3
O L
ORD
,
are
not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast
consumed them,
but
they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than
a rock; they have refused to return.
4
Therefore I said, Surely these
are
poor; they are foolish: for
they know not the way of the L
ORD
,
nor
the judgment of their God.
5
I will get me unto the great
men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the L
ORD
,
and
the judgment of
their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke,
and
burst the bonds.
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.
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’ houses.
8
They were
as
fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after
his neighbour’s wife.
9
Shall I not visit for these
things?
saith the L
ORD
: and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this?
10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for
they
are
not the L
ORD
’S.
11
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, saith the L
ORD
.
12
They have belied the L
ORD
, and said,
It is
not he; neither
shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13
And the prophets shall become
wind, and the word
is
not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
14
Wherefore thus saith the L
ORD
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.
15
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house
of Israel, saith the L
ORD
: it
is
a mighty nation, it
is
an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou
knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
16
Their quiver
is
as an open sepulchre, they
are
all mighty men.
17
And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread,
which
thy sons and thy
daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and
thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
18
Nevertheless in those days, saith the L
ORD
, I will not make a full end with you.
19
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the L
ORD
our God all these
things
unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods
in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land
that is
not yours.
20
Declare this in the house of
Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;
which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22
Fear ye not me? saith the L
ORD
:
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
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