Jeremiah 5 (NET)

Jeremiah 5:1¹The Lord said, “Go up and down through the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares. See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful. If you can, then I will not punish this city.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:2²These people make promises in the name of the Lord. But the fact is, what they swear to is really a lie.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:3³Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:4⁴I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:5⁵I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the Lord demands. Surely they know what their God requires of them.” Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:6⁶So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the rift valley they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:7⁷The Lord asked, “How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:8⁸They are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor’s wife.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:9⁹I will surely punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord. “I will surely bring retribution on such a nation as this!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:10¹⁰The Lord commanded the enemy, “March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:11¹¹For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:12¹²“These people have denied what the Lord says. They have said, ‘That is not so! No harm will come to us. We will not experience war and famine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:13¹³The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:14¹⁴Because of that, the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies said to me: “Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood, which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:15¹⁵The Lord says, “Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:16¹⁶All its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:17¹⁷They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:18¹⁸“Yet even then I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:19¹⁹“So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ tell them, ‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:20²⁰“Proclaim this message among the descendants of Jacob. Make it known throughout Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:21²¹Tell them: ‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:22²²‘You should fear me!’ says the Lord. ‘You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:23²³But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:24²⁴They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us revere the Lord our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:25²⁵Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:26²⁶Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:27²⁷Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:28²⁸That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:29²⁹I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord. “I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:30³⁰Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 5:31³¹The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions