lesserot - Jeremiah:4-5

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:1 @ If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, unto me must thou return; and if thou wilt put away thy abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not wander about.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:2 @ And if thou wilt swear, As the Lord liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness: then shall nations bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glorify themselves.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus hath said the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Plough up your fallow ground, that ye may not sow among thorns.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and remove the obduracy of your heart, O ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:5 @ Tell ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem, and say, Blow ye the cornet in the land: call out, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:6 @ Set up the standard toward Zion; save yourselves by flight, stay not; for evil do I bring from the north, and a great destruction.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:7 @ The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of nations hath commenced his march, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, left without an inhabitant.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:8 @ For this gird yourselves with sackcloths, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:9 @ And it shall come to pass on that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king and the heart of the princes shall fail; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:10 @ Then said I, Ah, Lord Eternal! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:11 @ At that time shall be announced to this people and to Jerusalem a dry wind from the mountainpeaks in the wilderness, on the road to the daughter of my people; not to winnow, nor to cleanse,

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:12 @ A strong wind from these places shall come unto me: now also will I myself pronounce judgment against them.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:13 @ Behold, like clouds shall he come up, and like a whirlwind shall be his chariots: swifter than eagles are his horses. "Woe unto us! for we are wasted."

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:14 @ Wash from wrong doing thy heart, O Jerusalem, in order that thou mayest be saved. How long wilt thou let lodge within thee the thoughts of thy wickedness?

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:15 @ For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth unhappiness from the mountain of Ephraim.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:16 @ Make ye mention of it to the nations; behold, let it be heard against Jerusalem, that beleaguerers come from a faroff country, and send forth their voice against the cities of Judah.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:17 @ As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because against me hath she been rebellious, saith the Lord.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:18 @ Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee: this is thy wickedness, which is so bitter, which so reacheth unto thy heart.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:19 @ My bowels, my bowels! I am shaken, at the very chambers of my heart; my heart beateth tumultuously in me; I cannot remain silent; because the sound of the cornet hast thou heard, O my soul, the alarm of war.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:20 @ Ruin upon ruin is called out; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents wasted, and in a moment, my curtains.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:21 @ How long shall I see the standard, hear the sound of the cornet?

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:22 @ "Because my people is foolish, me have they not known; sottish children are they, and they have not any understanding: wise are they to do evil, but how to do good they do not know."

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:23 @ I look at the earth, and, lo, it is without form and void; and toward the heavens, and their light is gone.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:24 @ I look at the mountains, and, lo, they tremble, and all the hills are moved.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:25 @ I look, and, lo, there is no man, and all the birds of the heavens are fled.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:26 @ I look, and, lo, the fruitful country is a wilderness, and all its cities are laid waste at the presence of the Lord, because of the fierceness of his anger.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:27 @ For thus hath said the Lord, Desolate shall be the whole land; yet a full end will I not make.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:28 @ For this shall mourn the earth, and black shall be the heavens above; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I will not repent, and I will not turn back from it.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:29 @ From the noise of horsemen and those that shoot with the bow fleeth the whole city; they go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:30 @ And thou, O wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet, though thou adorn thyself with ornaments of gold, though thou encircle with paint thy eyes: in vain shalt thou make thyself beautiful; the adulterers will despise thee, thy life will they seek.

lesserot@Jeremiah:4:31 @ For a voice as of a woman in travail have I heard, the anguish as of one that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that groaneth, that spreadeth out her hands, "Woe is me now! for my soul succumbeth to the murderers."

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:1 @ Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and notice, and search in its broad places, if ye can find one man, if there be one that executeth justice, that searcheth for truth: and I will pardon it.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:2 @ And though they say, "As the Lord liveth!" surely they only swear to a falsehood.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O Lord, are not thy eyes to the truth? thou didst strike them, but they felt it not; thou didst make an end of them, they refused to accept correction: they made their faces harder than a rock, they refused to return.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:4 @ Yet I myself thought, Oh these are but poor; they are foolish; for they knew not the way of the Lord, the ordinance of their God.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:5 @ I had better go unto the great men, and let me speak with them; for these surely know the way of the Lord, the ordinance of their God; but these altogether have broken the yoke, burst the bands.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Therefore slayeth them the lion out of the forest, the wolf of the deserts wasteth them, the leopard lieth in wait against their cities: every one that cometh out thence shall be torn in pieces; because many are their transgressions, very numerous are their backslidings.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:7 @ How shall I for this pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by those that are not gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots house.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:8 @ As robust horses they rose by times in the morning: every one neighed after the wife of his neighbor.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not for these things inflict punishment? saith the Lord: and shall on a nation such as this my soul not be avenged?

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:10 @ Scale ye her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: remove her young shoots; for they are not the Lords.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have denied the Lord, and said, "He existeth not; nor will evil come over us; and the sword and famine shall we not see.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:13 @ And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them:" thus shall it be done unto them.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Therefore thus hath said the Lord the God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth to be a fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Lo, I will bring over you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is a most ancient nation, a nation whose language thou wilt not know, and thou wilt not understand what they speak.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:16 @ Their quiver is as an open sepulchre: they are all mighty men.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:17 @ And they shall consume thy harvest, and thy bread; they shall consume thy sons and thy daughters; they shall consume thy flocks and thy herds; they shall consume thy vines and thy figtrees; they shall depopulate thy fortified cities, those wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:18 @ Nevertheless even in those days, saith the Lord, will I not make a full end of you.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye will say, For what reason hath the Lord our God done all these things unto us? that thou shalt say unto them, In the same manner as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:20 @ Announce this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:21 @ Do now hear this, O sottish people, who have no heart; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not;

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:22 @ Will ye not fear me? saith the Lord; will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand as a bound for the sea by an everlasting law, which it can never pass over? and though the waves thereof be upheaved, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:23 @ But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart: they have departed and have gone their way.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:24 @ And they have not said in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, the early and the latter rain, in its season: the appointed weeks of the harvest doth he ever preserve for us.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:25 @ Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden what is good from you.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:26 @ For there are found among my people wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that layeth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:27 @ As a coop is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore are they become great, and grown rich.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:28 @ They are grown fat, they are stout; yea, they surpass even the deeds of the wicked: they pronounce no sentence, the sentence of the fatherless, that they might prosper; and the cause of the needy do they not judge.

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:29 @ shall I not for these things inflict punishment? saith the Lord: or shall on a nation such as this my soul not be avenged?

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:30 @ An astonishing and horrible thing is committed in the land;

lesserot@Jeremiah:5:31 @ The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so; but what will ye do in the end thereof?

lesserot@Jeremiah:6:1 @ Assemble, O ye children of Benjamin, to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and in Tekoa, blow the cornet, and on Bethhakkerem set up a fire signal; for evil is seen out of the north, and great havoc.