Jeremiah 5 Parallel Bible

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	SLT Smith's Literal Translation	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	Run ye to and fro in the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye shall find a man, if there is he doing judgment, seeking faithfulness; and I will pardon to her.	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	And if Jehovah lives, they will say, for this they will swear to a falsehood.	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 Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon faithfulness? thou didst smite them, and they were not pained; thou didst consume them, they refused to take instruction: they made their faces firm above the rock; they refused to turn back.	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	And I said, Surely, they are weak; they became foolish: for they knew not the way of Jehovah, 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	I will go for myself to the great ones, and I will speak to them; for they knew the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God: surely they together broke the yoke and tore away 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, a lion from the forest struck them, a wolf of the deserts will destroy them, the panther watched over their cities: every one going forth from thence shall be torn in pieces; for their transgressions were multiplied, their turnings away were strong.	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	How shall I forgive to thee for this? thy sons forsook me, and they will swear by not God; and I will satisfy them, and they will commit adultery, and they will crowd themselves together to 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 were horses seducing to fornication: roaming about, they will neigh, a man for the wife of his neighbor.	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	For these shall I not review? says Jehovah; and shalt not my soul be avenged upon 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	Go ye up upon her walls and destroy; and ye shall not make a completion: remove her twigs, for they are not to Jehovah.	“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 acting faithlessly, the house of Israel and the house of Judah acted faithlessly against me, says Jehovah.	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 lied against Jehovah, and they will say, Not he; and evil shall not come upon us; and we shall not see the sword and famine:	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	And the prophets shall be for wind, and the word not in them: so shall it be done 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	For this, thus said Jehovah, the God of armies, Because ye spake this word, behold me giving my word in thy mouth for fire, and this people wood, and it consumed 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 me bringing upon you a nation from far off, O house of Israel, says Jehovah: it is a nation of strength, it is a nation of old, a nation thou wilt not know its tongue, and thou shalt not hear what it will speak.	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	Its quiver as a grave being opened, all they are 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 it ate thy harvest and thy bread, that thy sons and thy daughters shall eat: it shall eat thy sheep and thine oxen: it shall eat thy vine and thy fig trees: it shall break down thy fortified cities which thou trustedst in them, with the sword.	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	And also in those days, says Jehovah, I will not make with you a completion.	“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 it was when ye shalt say, For what did Jehovah our God all these things to us? and thou saidst to them, As ye forsook me, and ye will serve a strange god in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land not to you.	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 ye this in the house of Jacob, and cause it to be heard 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	Hear now this, O foolish people, and no heart; eyes to them and they will not see; and ears to them, and they will 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	Will ye not fear me? says Jehovah; or will ye not tremble from my face, who set the sand a bound to the sea a law forever, and it shall not pass over it: and its waves shall toss themselves and shall not prevail; and they were put in commotion and shall not pass over it.	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	And to this people was a heart turning aside and perverse, and they turned aside 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 said not in their heart, Now will we fear Jehovah our God, giving rain, and the early and latter rain in its time: the appointed sevenths of harvest he will watch 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 turned away these things, and your sins withheld the good 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 evil ones were found among my people: he will look about as the stooping of fowlers; they set snares, they will take 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	As a cane full of birds, so their houses full of deceit: for this they were magnified and they will be rich.	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 became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.	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	For these things shall I not review? says Jehovah: or shall not my soul be avenged upon 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?
30	Astonishment and horror was in the land.	An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:	“A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land:
31	The prophets prophesied in falsehood, and the priests will spread out with their hands; and my people loved it thus: and what will ye do to its last part.	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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