Jeremiah 5

1“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.Cross-references: Gen 18:23 · 1Ki 19:10 · 2Chr 16:9 · Ps 12:1 · Ps 14:3 · Ps 53:2 · +15 more

2Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”Cross-references: Lev 19:12 · Isa 48:1 · Jer 4:2 · Jer 7:9 · Hos 4:1 · Hos 4:15 · +6 more

3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? 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.Cross-references: 2Chr 16:9 · 2Chr 28:22 · Ps 11:4 · Ps 51:6 · Prov 21:29 · Prov 22:12 · +19 more

4Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.Cross-references: Isa 27:11 · Isa 28:9 · Jer 4:22 · Jer 7:8 · Jer 8:7 · Hos 4:6 · +2 more

5I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.Cross-references: Ps 2:2 · Jer 2:20 · Jer 6:13 · Ezek 22:6 · Ezek 22:25 · Amos 4:1 · +10 more

6Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.Cross-references: Num 32:14 · Ezra 9:6 · Ezra 10:10 · Ps 104:20 · Isa 59:12 · Jer 2:15 · +24 more

7“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.Cross-references: Lev 20:10 · Num 25:1 · Deut 32:15 · Deut 32:21 · Josh 23:7 · Ps 50:18 · +25 more

8They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.Cross-references: Gen 39:9 · Ex 20:14 · Ex 20:17 · Deut 5:18 · Deut 5:21 · 2Sam 11:2 · +5 more

9Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Cross-references: Lev 26:25 · Deut 32:35 · Deut 32:43 · Isa 1:24 · Jer 5:29 · Jer 9:9 · +8 more

10“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not Yahweh’s.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:2 · 2Chr 36:17 · Ps 78:61 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 13:1 · Jer 4:27 · +14 more

11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Isa 48:8 · Jer 3:6 · Jer 3:20 · Hos 5:7 · Hos 6:7

12They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.Cross-references: Deut 29:19 · 1Sam 6:9 · 2Chr 36:16 · Ps 10:6 · Isa 28:14 · Jer 4:10 · +13 more

13The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”Cross-references: Job 6:26 · Job 8:2 · Jer 14:13 · Jer 14:15 · Jer 18:18 · Jer 20:8 · +2 more

14Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.Cross-references: 2Ki 1:10 · Jer 1:9 · Jer 23:29 · Jer 28:15 · Hos 6:5 · Zech 1:6 · +1 more

15Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Isa 5:7 · Isa 5:26 · Isa 28:11 · Isa 29:3 · Isa 29:6 · +14 more

16Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.Cross-references: Ps 5:9 · Isa 5:28 · Rom 3:13

17They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.Cross-references: Lev 26:16 · Deut 28:30 · Deut 28:33 · Judg 6:3 · Isa 62:9 · Isa 65:22 · +11 more

18“But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end of you.Cross-references: Jer 4:27 · Jer 5:10 · Ezek 9:8 · Ezek 11:13 · Rom 11:1

19It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’Cross-references: Deut 4:25 · Deut 28:47 · Deut 29:24 · 1Ki 9:8 · 2Chr 7:21 · Jer 2:13 · +6 more

20“Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

21‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:Cross-references: Deut 29:4 · Deut 32:6 · Ps 94:8 · Prov 17:16 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 27:11 · +12 more

22Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh; ‘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? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’Cross-references: Deut 28:58 · Job 26:10 · Job 38:10 · Ps 33:7 · Ps 93:3 · Ps 99:1 · +13 more

23“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.Cross-references: Deut 21:18 · Ps 95:10 · Isa 1:5 · Isa 31:6 · Jer 5:5 · Jer 6:28 · +4 more

24They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’Cross-references: Gen 8:22 · Deut 11:13 · Deut 28:12 · 1Ki 17:1 · Job 5:10 · Job 36:27 · +16 more

25“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.Cross-references: Deut 28:23 · Ps 107:17 · Ps 107:34 · Isa 59:2 · Jer 2:17 · Jer 3:3 · +2 more

26For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.Cross-references: 1Sam 19:10 · Ps 10:9 · Ps 64:5 · Prov 1:11 · Prov 1:17 · Isa 58:1 · +5 more

27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.Cross-references: Prov 1:11 · Jer 9:6 · Hos 12:7 · Amos 8:4 · Mic 1:12 · Mic 6:10 · +2 more

28They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · Job 12:6 · Job 15:27 · Job 21:23 · Job 29:12 · Ps 72:4 · +15 more

29“Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Cross-references: Jer 5:9 · Jer 9:9 · Mal 3:5 · James 5:4

30“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.Cross-references: Isa 1:2 · Jer 2:12 · Jer 23:14 · Hos 6:10

31The 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?Cross-references: Deut 32:29 · Isa 10:3 · Isa 20:6 · Isa 30:10 · Isa 33:14 · Jer 4:30 · +17 more