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You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the law of their God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says the LORD; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>"Go up on her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not the LORD's.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They have denied the LORD, and said, "It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, "Because you speak this word, look, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Look, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel," says the LORD. "It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, neither understand what they say.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. They shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>"But even in those days," says the LORD, "I will not make a full end with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>It will happen, when you say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, Just like you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>"Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Do you not fear me?' says the LORD 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? And though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>"But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Neither do they say in their heart, 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>"Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they do not judge the right of the needy.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>"Shall I not punish for these things?" says the LORD. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>"An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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