Jeremiah 5
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Jeremiah 5
The Utter Corruption of God’s People
1 #
Gen 18.23, 26, 32; 2 Chr 16.9; Ezek 22.30 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
look around and take note!
Search its squares and see
if you can find one person
who acts justly
and seeks truth—
so that I may pardon Jerusalem.#5.1 Heb it
2 #
Jer 4.2; 7.9; Titus 1.16 Although they say, “As the Lord lives,”
yet they swear falsely.
3 #
Isa 1.5; 9.13; Jer 2.30; 7.26; 19.15; Zeph 3.2 O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth?
You have struck them,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to turn back.
4 #
Jer 4.22; 8.7 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense,
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
the law of their God.
5 #
Ps 2.3; Mic 3.1 Let me go to the rich#5.5 Or the great
and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
the law of their God.”
But they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.
6 #
Jer 30.14, 15; Hos 13.7; Hab 1.8; Zeph 3.3 Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them;
a wolf from the desert shall destroy them.
A leopard is watching against their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many;
their faithlessness is great.
7 #
Num 25.1–3; Deut 32.21; Josh 23.7; Jer 7.9; Zeph 1.5; Gal 4.8 How can I pardon you?
Your children have forsaken me
and have sworn by those who are no gods.
When I fed them to the full,
they committed adultery
and trooped to the houses of prostitutes.
8 #
Jer 13.27; Ezek 22.11 They were well-fed lusty stallions,
each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.
9 #
Jer 9.9; 44.22 Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord,
and shall I not bring retribution
on a nation such as this?
10 #
v 18
; Jer 4.27; 39.8Go up through her vine rows and destroy,
but do not make a full end;
strip away her branches,
for they are not the Lord’s.
11 #
Jer 3.20
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
have been utterly faithless to me, says the Lord.
12 #
2 Chr 36.16; Isa 28.15; Jer 14.13; 23.17 They have spoken falsely of the Lord
and have said, “He will do nothing.
No evil will come upon us,
and we shall not see sword or famine.”
13 #
Jer 14.13, 15 The prophets are nothing but wind,
for the word is not in them.
Thus shall it be done to them!
14 #
Jer 1.9; 23.29 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts:
Because you have spoken this word,
I am now making my words in your mouth a fire
and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them.
15 #
Deut 28.49; Isa 5.26; 29.3; Jer 1.15; 4.16; 6.22 I am going to bring upon you
a nation from far away, O house of Israel, says the Lord.
It is an enduring nation;
it is an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know,
nor can you understand what they say.
16 #
Isa 5.28; 13.18 Their quiver is like an open tomb;
all of them are mighty warriors.
17 #
Lev 26.16; Deut 28.31, 33; Jer 8.13; Hos 8.14 They shall eat up your harvest and your food;
they shall eat up your sons and your daughters;
they shall eat up your flocks and your herds;
they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees;
they shall destroy with the sword
your fortified cities in which you trust.
18 #
Jer 4.27
But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not make a full end of you. 19#Deut 28.48; 29.24–26; 1 Kings 9.8, 9; Jer 16.10–13And when your people say, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” you shall say to them, “As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.”
20Declare this in the house of Jacob;
proclaim it in Judah:
21 #
v 4
; Isa 6.9, 10; Ezek 12.2; Mt 13.14Hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear.
22 #
Job 26.10; Ps 104.9; Jer 2.19 Do you not fear me? says the Lord;
Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
23 #
Jer 4.17; 6.28 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;
they have turned aside and gone away.
24 #
Gen 8.22; Ps 147.8; Joel 2.23; Mt 5.45 They do not say in their hearts,
“Let us fear the Lord our God,
who gives the rain in its season,
the autumn rain and the spring rain,
and keeps for us
the weeks appointed for the harvest.”
25 #
Jer 2.17; 4.18 Your iniquities have turned these away,
and your sins have deprived you of good.
26 #
Ps 10.9; Prov 1.11; Hab 1.15 For the wicked are found among my people.
They lie in wait like hunters;
destroyers,#5.26 Meaning of Heb uncertain they catch humans.
27 #
Jer 9.6; 12.1 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich;
28 #
Deut 32.15; Isa 1.23; Jer 2.34; Zech 7.10 they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no limits in deeds of wickedness;
they do not judge with justice
the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
29 #
Mal 3.5
Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord,
and shall I not bring retribution
on a nation such as this?
30 #
Hos 6.10
An appalling and horrible thing
has happened in the land:
31 #
Jer 14.14; Ezek 13.6; Mic 2.11 the prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule as the prophets direct;#5.31 Or rule by their own authority
my people love to have it so,
but what will you do when the end comes?
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