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Jerusalem Refused to Repent
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|Jeremias 5:1|a Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see b if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, c that I may pardon her.
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|Jeremias 5:2|d Though they say, “As the LORD lives,” e yet they swear falsely.
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|Jeremias 5:3|O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? f You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. g They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
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|Jeremias 5:4|Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; h for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
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|Jeremias 5:5|I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” i But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
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|Jeremias 5:6|Therefore j a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a k wolf from the desert shall devastate them. l A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their m apostasies are great.
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|Jeremias 5:7|n “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me o and have sworn by those who are no gods. p When I fed them to the full, q they committed adultery r and trooped to the houses of whores.
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|Jeremias 5:8|They were well-fed, lusty stallions, s each neighing t for his neighbor's wife.
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|Jeremias 5:9|u Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
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|Jeremias 5:10|v “Go up through her vine rows and destroy, w but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the LORD's.
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