These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 5
Tanakh 31 verses
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Run ye to and fro through the streets of , And see now, and , And seek in the broad places thereof, If ye can find a man, If there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh ; And I will pardon her.
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- 2 And though they say: ‘As liveth’, Surely they swear falsely.
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O , are not Thine eyes upon ? Thou hast stricken them, but they were not affected; Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; They have made their faces harder than a rock; They have refused to return.
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2 Chronicles 16:9 Jeremiah 2:30 Jeremiah 7:28 Isaiah 9:13 Zephaniah 3:7 Zephaniah 3:1-2 Psalm 11:4-7 Zechariah 7:11-12 Ezekiel 3:7-9 Jeremiah 19:15 Jeremiah 32:19 Isaiah 48:4 Jeremiah 7:26 Psalm 51:6 2 Chronicles 28:22 Ezekiel 24:13 Hebrews 12:9 Romans 2:4-5 Isaiah 42:25 Romans 2:2 Proverbs 22:12 Proverbs 27:22 Proverbs 21:29 Isaiah 1:5-6 Proverbs 23:35 -
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And I said: ‘Surely these are poor, They are foolish, for they not the way of , Nor the of their ;
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- 5 I will get me unto the great men, And will speak unto them; For they the way of , And the of their .’ But these had altogether broken the yoke, And burst the bands.
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Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard watcheth over their cities, Every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces; Because their transgressions are many, Their backslidings are increased.
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Zephaniah 3:3 Habakkuk 1:8 Jeremiah 4:7 Ezekiel 22:27 Daniel 7:4 Psalm 104:20 Jeremiah 49:19 Jeremiah 30:24 Jeremiah 16:10-12 Jeremiah 2:17 Ezekiel 16:25 Ezra 10:10 Ezekiel 23:19 Numbers 32:14 Hosea 13:7-8 Ezra 9:6 Nahum 2:11-12 Jeremiah 25:38 Jeremiah 30:14 Jeremiah 9:12-14 Lamentations 1:5 Jeremiah 2:19 Jeremiah 14:7 Revelation 13:2 Daniel 7:6 Isaiah 59:12 Hosea 5:14 Jeremiah 2:15 Amos 5:18-19 Ezekiel 14:16-21 -
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Wherefore should I pardon thee? The children have forsaken Me, And sworn by no-Elohims; And when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, And assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses.
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Galatians 4:8 Joshua 23:7 Deuteronomy 32:21 Jeremiah 2:11 Zephaniah 1:5 Jeremiah 9:2 Jeremiah 12:16 Jeremiah 23:10 Deuteronomy 32:15 Hosea 13:6 Leviticus 20:10 Hosea 11:8 Ezekiel 22:11 Hosea 4:2 Matthew 23:37-38 Jeremiah 29:22-23 Jeremiah 3:19 1 Corinthians 6:9 Ezekiel 16:49-50 Malachi 3:5 Jeremiah 13:27 Hosea 4:13-15 1 Corinthians 8:4 Numbers 25:1-3 Hosea 7:4 Amos 8:14 Psalm 50:18 James 4:4 James 5:1-5 Jeremiah 2:31 Hebrews 13:4 - 8 They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; Every one neigheth after his neighbour’s wife.
- 9 Shall I not punish for these things? Saith ; And shall not My be avenged On such a nation as this?
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Go ye up into her rows, and destroy, But make not a full end; Take away her shoots; For they are not Yahweh’S.
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For the house of and the house of Have dealt very treacherously against Me, Saith .
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They have belied , And said: ‘It is not He, Neither shall evil come upon us; Neither shall we see sword nor famine;
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And the prophets shall become wind, And the is not in them; Thus be it done unto them.’
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Wherefore thus saith , the of hosts: Because ye speak this , Behold, I will make My words in thy mouth fire, And this people wood, and it shall devour them.
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Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of , saith ; It is an enduring nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language thou knowest not, Neither understandest what they say.
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Their quiver is an open sepulchre, They are all mighty men.
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- 17 And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, They shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, They shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, They shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; They shall batter thy fortified cities, Wherein thou trusteth, with the sword.
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But even in those days, saith , I will not make a full end with you.
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- 19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say: ‘Wherefore hath our done all these things unto us?’ then shalt Thou say unto them: ‘Like as ye have forsaken Me, and served strange Elohims in your land, so shall ye strangers in a land that is not yours.’
- 20 Declare ye this in the house of , And announce it in , saying:
- 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, That have eyes, and see not, That have ears, and not:
- 22 Fear ye not Me? saith ; Will ye not tremble at My presence? Who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, An , which it cannot pass; And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; Though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
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But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious ; They are revolted, and gone.
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Neither say they in their : ‘Let us now our , That giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; That keepeth for us The appointed weeks of the harvest.’
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- 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, And your sins have withholden good from you.
- 26 For among My people are found wicked men; They pry, as fowlers lie in wait; They set a trap, they catch men.
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As a cage is full of birds, So are their houses full of deceit; Therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;
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They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; Yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; They plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, That they might make it to prosper; And the right of the needy do they not judge.
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Shall I not punish for these things? Saith ; Shall not My be avenged On such a nation as this?
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An appalling and horrible thing Is come to pass in the land:
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The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood, And the priests bear rule at their beck; And My people to have it so; What then will ye do in the end thereof?
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Ezekiel 13:6 Micah 2:11 Jeremiah 14:14 Isaiah 10:3 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Deuteronomy 32:29 2 Timothy 4:3-4 2 Peter 2:1-2 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 John 3:19-21 Zephaniah 2:2-3 Isaiah 30:10-11 Isaiah 33:14 Ezekiel 22:14 Matthew 7:15-17 Jeremiah 4:30-31 Jeremiah 23:25-26 Micah 2:6 Isaiah 20:6 Jeremiah 22:22-23 Lamentations 1:9 Micah 3:11 Lamentations 2:14