Jeremiah 5 - HEAR, O EARTH

> [!title|noicon] **Jeremiah 5** > [[Jeremiah 4|<Prev]]   [[Jeremiah 6|Next>]] [🕮 Bible Navigator](Bible%20Books%20Navigation.md) [[Jeremiah 5 FSI|Chapter notes view]] [1↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-1) 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 executes judgment, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it. ^1 [2↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-2) And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely. ^2 [3↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-3) O LORD, _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. ^3 [4↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-4) 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. ^4 [5↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-5) 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↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-6) 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 goes out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, _and_ their backslidings are increased. ^6 [7↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-7) ¶ 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. ^7 [8↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-8) They were _as_ fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. ^8 [9↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-9) Shall I not visit for these _things?_ saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? ^9 [10↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-10) ¶ Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they _are_ not the LORD's. ^10 [11↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-11) For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. ^11 [12↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-12) They have belied the LORD, and said, _It_ _is_ not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: ^12 [13↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-13) And the prophets shall become wind, and the word _is_ not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. ^13 [14↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-14) 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. ^14 [15↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-15) Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it _is_ a mighty nation, it _is_ an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. ^15 [16↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-16) Their quiver _is_ as an open sepulchre, they _are_ all mighty men. ^16 [17↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-17) 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. ^17 [18↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-18) Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you. ^18 [19↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-19) ¶ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore does the LORD 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. ^19 [20↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-20) Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, ^20 [21↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-21) Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: ^21 [22↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-22) 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? ^22 [23↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-23) But this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. ^23 [24↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-24) Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. ^24 [25↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-25) ¶ Your iniquities have turned away these _things_, and your sins have withheld good _things_ from you. ^25 [26↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-26) For among my people are found wicked _men:_ they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men. ^26 [27↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-27) As a cage is full of birds, so _are_ their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. ^27 [28↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-28) They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. ^28 [29↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-29) Shall I not visit for these _things?_ saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? ^29 [30↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-30) ¶ A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; ^30 [31↗](Jeremiah%205%20FSI.md#^jer5-31) The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love _to_ _have_ _it_ so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? ^31 Tags: #Old_Testament #Jeremiah #Gods_judgment_on_His_people