Jeremiah 5:22-31 ▼

22 Do you not fear Me?” A declaration of YHWH; “Are you not pained from My presence? Who has made sand the border of the sea, || A perpetual limit, and it does not pass over it, || They shake themselves, and they are not able, || Indeed, its billows have sounded, and they do not pass over.

23 And this people has an apostatizing and rebelling heart, || They have turned aside, and they go on.

24 And they have not said in their heart, || Now let us fear our God YHWH, who is giving rain, || The autumn rain and the spring rain, in its season, || He keeps the appointed weeks of harvest for us.

25 Your iniquities have turned these away, || And your sins have kept the good from you.

26 For the wicked have been found among My people. He watches like one who sets snares, || They have set up a trap—they capture men.

27 As a cage full of birds, || So their houses are full of deceit, || Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

28 They have been fat, they have shone, || Indeed, they have surpassed the acts of the evil, || They have not judged judgment, || The judgment of the fatherless—and they prosper, || And they have not judged the judgment of the needy.

29 Do I not inspect for these,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “On a nation such as this, || Does My soul not avenge itself?

30 An astonishing and horrible thing has been in the land:

31 The prophets have prophesied falsely, || And the priests bear rule by their means, || And My people have loved [it] so, || And what do they do at its latter end?”