Jeremiah 5 Parallel Bible

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1	“Travel the streets of Jerusalem; and gaze, and consider, and seek, in its wide streets. If you can find a man exercising judgment and seeking faith, then I will be forgiving to them.	Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.	“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.
2	For even though they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ in this, too, they swear falsely.”	Though they say, “As the LORD lives,” yet they swear falsely.	Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ still they are swearing falsely.”
3	O Lord, your eyes look with favor upon faith. You have struck them, and they have not grieved. You have bruised them, and they have refused to accept discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, and they are not willing to return.	O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.	LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
4	But I said: Perhaps these are the poor and the senseless, who are ignorant of the way of the Lord, of the judgment of their God.	Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.	I thought, “These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.
5	Therefore, I will go to great men, and I will speak with them. For they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. And behold, these ones have broken the yoke all the more; they have torn apart the bonds.	I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.	So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.” But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.
6	For this reason, a lion from the forest has struck them down, a wolf toward evening has laid waste to them, a leopard lies in wait over their cities. All who go out from there will be taken. For their transgressions have been multiplied; their rebellions have been strengthened.	Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.	Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many.
7	“Over which things am I able to be merciful to you? Your sons have forsaken me, and they swear by those who are not gods. I gave them everything, and they committed adultery, and they indulged themselves in the house of the harlot.	“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores.	“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.
8	They have become like wild horses in heat; each one was neighing after his neighbor’s wife.	They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.	They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man’s wife.
9	Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? And shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation such as this?	Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?	Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
10	Scale its walls and tear them down. But do not be willing to bring about its very end. Take away its plantings, for they are not the Lord’s.	“Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.	“Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the LORD.
11	For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have greatly transgressed against me, says the Lord.	For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly treacherous to me, declares the LORD.	The people of Israel and the people of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to me,” declares the LORD.
12	They have denied the Lord, and they have said, ‘It is not him,’ and, ‘Evil will not overwhelm us. We will not see famine and the sword.’	They have spoken falsely of the LORD and have said, ‘He will do nothing; no disaster will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.	They have lied about the LORD; they said, “He will do nothing! No harm will come to us; we will never see sword or famine.
13	The prophets have spoken into the wind, and there was no answer with them. Therefore, these things will happen to them.”	The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!’”	The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them.”
14	Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: “Since you have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth like fire and this people like wood, and it will devour them.	Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: “Because you have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall consume them.	Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.
15	Behold, O house of Israel, I will lead over you a far away nation, says the Lord, a robust nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you will not know, nor will you understand what they are saying.	Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.	People of Israel,” declares the LORD, “I am bringing a distant nation against you— an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand.
16	Their quiver is like an open sepulcher. They are all strong.	Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors.	Their quivers are like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.
17	And they will consume your grain fields and your bread. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They will consume your flocks and your herds. They will consume your vineyards and your figs. And with the sword, they will crush your fortified cities, in which you have placed your trust.	They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall beat down with the sword.”	They will devour your harvests and food, devour your sons and daughters; they will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.
18	Yet truly, in those days, says the Lord, I will not bring the consummation over you.	“But even in those days, declares the LORD, I will not make a full end of you.	“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not destroy you completely.
19	And if they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You shall say to them: ‘Just as you have abandoned me and have served a strange god in your own land, so will you serve strangers in a land not your own.’	And when your people say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.’”	And when the people ask, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.’
20	Announce this to the house of Jacob, and make it known in Judah, saying:	Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah:	“Announce this to the descendants of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:
21	Listen, O foolish people who have no heart! You have eyes, but you do not see, and ears, but you do not hear.	“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.	Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:
22	So then, will you not fear me, says the Lord. And will you not have sorrow before my face? I have placed the shore as a limit for the sea, as an everlasting precept that it will not transgress. And its waves will crash, but they will not prevail; and its waves will swell, but they will not go across.	Do you not fear me? declares the LORD. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.	Should you not fear me?” declares the LORD. “Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.
23	But the heart of this people has become incredulous and provocative; they have turned away and departed.	But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.	But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away.
24	And they have not said in their heart: ‘Let us dread the Lord our God, who gives us the timely and the late rains, in their proper time, who guards the full measure of the yearly harvest for us.’	They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’	They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’
25	Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back good things from you.	Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.	Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.
26	For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.	For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.	“Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.
27	Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched.	Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;	Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful
28	They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.	they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.	and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor.
29	Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? Or shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation of this kind?	Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?”	Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
30	Astonishing and wondrous things have been done upon the earth.	An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:	“A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land:
31	The prophets have prophesied lies, and the priests have applauded with their hands, and my people have loved these things. So then, what shall be done at the very end?”	the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?	The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?
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