Jeremiah 5:22-31 ▼

22 Feare ye not me, saith the Lorde? will ye not tremble at my presence? which bynde the sea with the sande by a continuall decree, so that it can not passe his boundes: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing, and though the waues therof do swell, yet may they not go ouer.

23 But this people hath a false and obstinate heart, they are departed and gone away fro me.

24 They thinke not in their heartes, O let vs feare the Lord our God, who geueth vs raine early and late when nede is, whiche kepeth euer still the haruest for vs yerely.

25 Neuerthesse, your misdeedes haue turned these from you, and your sinnes haue robbed you of good thinges.

26 For among my people are found wicked persons, that priuily lay snares and wayte for men, to take them and destroy them.

27 And like as a nette is full of byrdes, so are their houses full of that which they haue gotten with falshood and deceipt: Hereof commeth their great substaunce and riches,

28 Hereof are they fat and welthy, and are more mischieuous then any other: they minister not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesse cause, yea and they prosper: yet they iudge not the poore according to equitie.

29 Should I not punishe these thinges saith the Lorde? should not I be auenged of all suche people as these be?

30 Horrible and greeuous thinges are done in the lande.

31 The prophetes teache falsely, and the preachers receaue giftes, and my people hath pleasure therein: what wyll come thereof at the last.