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1 RUN to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now and know, and search in its broad places, if you can find a man, if there is any that executes justice, that seeks truth; and I will pardon them. 2 And though they say, The LORD lives; truly they swear falsely. 3 O LORD, thine eyes are 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 repent. 4 Therefore I said, It is because they are poor; they have gone astray, for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will go to the princes and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD and the judgment of their God; but truly they have altogether broken the yoke; they have burst the bonds. 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them and hungry wolves of the evening shall tear them in pieces; a leopard shall lie in wait over their cities; every one that goes out thence shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are multiplied and become so strong that they will not repent. 7 How shall I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by those that are no gods; when I had fed them until they were satisfied, they then committed adultery, and they fought one another in the harlots' houses. 8 They were wanton like stallions, every one lusting after his neighbor's wife. 9 Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on such a people as this? 10 Go up upon her walls and destroy; but make not a full end; spare her foundations, for they belong to the LORD. 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD. 12 They have lied against the LORD 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 a whirlwind and will have nothing to say; thus shall it be done to them. Jeremiah 5:1-13, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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