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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 5 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Jeremiah 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/4.htm" title="Jeremiah 4">◄</a> Jeremiah 5 <a href="../jeremiah/6.htm" title="Jeremiah 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/5-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">No One Is Just<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Travel the streets of Jerusalem; and gaze, and consider, and seek, in its wide streets. If you can find a man exercising judgment and seeking faith, then I will be forgiving to them.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For even though they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’ in this, too, they swear falsely.”<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>O Lord, your eyes look with favor upon faith. You have struck them, and they have not grieved. You have bruised them, and they have refused to accept discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, and they are not willing to return.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But I said: Perhaps these are the poor and the senseless, who are ignorant of the way of the Lord, of the judgment of their God.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Therefore, I will go to great men, and I will speak with them. For they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. And behold, these ones have broken the yoke all the more; they have torn apart the bonds.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For this reason, a lion from the forest has struck them down, a wolf toward evening has laid waste to them, a leopard lies in wait over their cities. All who go out from there will be taken. For their transgressions have been multiplied; their rebellions have been strengthened.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Over which things am I able to be merciful to you? Your sons have forsaken me, and they swear by those who are not gods. I gave them everything, and they committed adultery, and they indulged themselves in the house of the harlot.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They have become like wild horses in heat; each one was neighing after his neighbor’s wife.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? And shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation such as this?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Scale its walls and tear them down. But do not be willing to bring about its very end. Take away its plantings, for they are not the Lord’s.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have greatly transgressed against me, says the Lord.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They have denied the Lord, and they have said, ‘It is not him,’ and, ‘Evil will not overwhelm us. We will not see famine and the sword.’<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The prophets have spoken into the wind, and there was no answer with them. Therefore, these things will happen to them.”<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment Proclaimed<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: “Since you have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth like fire and this people like wood, and it will devour them.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, O house of Israel, I will lead over you a far away nation, says the Lord, a robust nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you will not know, nor will you understand what they are saying.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Their quiver is like an open sepulcher. They are all strong.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And they will consume your grain fields and your bread. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They will consume your flocks and your herds. They will consume your vineyards and your figs. And with the sword, they will crush your fortified cities, in which you have placed your trust.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Yet truly, in those days, says the Lord, I will not bring the consummation over you. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And if they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You shall say to them: ‘Just as you have abandoned me and have served a strange god in your own land, so will you serve strangers in a land not your own.’<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Announce this to the house of Jacob, and make it known in Judah, saying:<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Listen, O foolish people who have no heart! You have eyes, but you do not see, and ears, but you do not hear.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So then, will you not fear me, says the Lord. And will you not have sorrow before my face? I have placed the shore as a limit for the sea, as an everlasting precept that it will not transgress. And its waves will crash, but they will not prevail; and its waves will swell, but they will not go across.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But the heart of this people has become incredulous and provocative; they have turned away and departed.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And they have not said in their heart: ‘Let us dread the Lord our God, who gives us the timely and the late rains, in their proper time, who guards the full measure of the yearly harvest for us.’<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back good things from you.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? Or shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation of this kind?<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Astonishing and wondrous things have been done upon the earth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/5-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The prophets have prophesied lies, and the priests have applauded with their hands, and my people have loved these things. 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