jps - Jeremiah:5-7

jps@Jeremiah:5:1 @ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.

jps@Jeremiah:5:2 @ And though they say: 'As the LORD liveth', surely they swear falsely.

jps@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? 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.

jps@Jeremiah:5:4 @ And I said: 'Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the ordinance of their God;

jps@Jeremiah:5:5 @ I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of the LORD, and the ordinance of their God.' But these had altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bands.

jps@Jeremiah:5:6 @ 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.

jps@Jeremiah:5:7 @ Wherefore should I pardon thee? The children have forsaken Me, and sworn by no-gods; and when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.

jps@Jeremiah:5:8 @ They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

jps@Jeremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

jps@Jeremiah:5:10 @ Go ye up into her rows, and destroy, but make not a full end; take away her shoots; for they are not the LORD'S.

jps@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against Me, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:5:12 @ They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine;

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

jps@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Wherefore thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts: Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make My words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

jps@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD; it is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

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

jps@Jeremiah:5:17 @ 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.

jps@Jeremiah:5:18 @ But even in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

jps@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say: 'Wherefore hath the LORD our God done all these things unto us?' then shalt Thou say unto them: 'Like as ye have forsaken Me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'

jps@Jeremiah:5:20 @ Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and announce it in Judah, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:5:21 @ Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, that have eyes, and see not, that have ears, and hear not:

jps@Jeremiah:5:22 @ Fear ye not Me? saith the LORD; Will ye not tremble at My presence? Who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, an everlasting ordinance, 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.

jps@Jeremiah:5:23 @ But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted, and gone.

jps@Jeremiah:5:24 @ Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; that keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'

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

jps@Jeremiah:5:26 @ For among My people are found wicked men; they pry, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

jps@Jeremiah:5:27 @ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;

jps@Jeremiah:5:28 @ 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.

jps@Jeremiah:5:29 @ Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

jps@Jeremiah:5:30 @ An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

jps@Jeremiah:5:31 @ The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood, and the priests bear rule at their beck; and My people love to have it so; What then will ye do in the end thereof?

jps@Jeremiah:6:1 @ Put yourselves under covert, ye children of Benjamin, away from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal on Beth-cherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.

jps@Jeremiah:6:2 @ The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.

jps@Jeremiah:6:3 @ Shepherds with their flocks come unto her; they pitch their tents against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand.

jps@Jeremiah:6:4 @ 'Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon!' 'Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out!'

jps@Jeremiah:6:5 @ 'Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.'

jps@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.

jps@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a cistern welleth with her waters, so she welleth with her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before Me continually is sickness and wounds.

jps@Jeremiah:6:8 @ Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

jps@Jeremiah:6:9 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again thy hand as a grape- gatherer upon the shoots.

jps@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is dull, and they cannot attend; behold, the word of the LORD is become unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it.

jps@Jeremiah:6:11 @ Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the babes in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

jps@Jeremiah:6:12 @ And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out My hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:6:13 @ For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is greedy for gain; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

jps@Jeremiah:6:14 @ They have healed also the hurt of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace.

jps@Jeremiah:6:15 @ They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination; yea, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they how to blush; therefore they shall fall among them that fall, at the time that I punish them they shall stumble, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus saith the LORD: Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said: 'We will not walk therein.'

jps@Jeremiah:6:17 @ And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.'

jps@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is against them.

jps@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth: Behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not attended unto My words, and as for My teaching, they have rejected it.

jps@Jeremiah:6:20 @ To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country? Your burnt- offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me.

jps@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them, the neighbour and his friend, and they shall perish.

jps@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus saith the LORD: Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be roused from the uttermost parts of the earth.

jps@Jeremiah:6:23 @ They lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel, and have no compassion; their voice is like the roaring sea, and they ride upon horses; set in array, as a man for war, against thee, O daughter of Zion.

jps@Jeremiah:6:24 @ 'We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble, anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.'

jps@Jeremiah:6:25 @ Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for there is the sword of the enemy, and terror on every side.

jps@Jeremiah:6:26 @ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

jps@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have made thee a tower and a fortress among My people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

jps@Jeremiah:6:28 @ They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly.

jps@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire; in vain doth the founder refine, for the wicked are not separated.

jps@Jeremiah:6:30 @ Refuse silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

jps@Jeremiah:7:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:

jps@Jeremiah:7:2 @ Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:7:3 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

jps@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Trust ye not in lying words, saying: 'The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, are these.'

jps@Jeremiah:7:5 @ Nay, but if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour;

jps@Jeremiah:7:6 @ if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;

jps@Jeremiah:7:7 @ then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

jps@Jeremiah:7:8 @ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

jps@Jeremiah:7:9 @ Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have not known,

jps@Jeremiah:7:10 @ and come and stand before Me in this house, whereupon My name is called, and say: 'We are delivered', that ye may do all these abominations?

jps@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Is this house, whereupon My name is called, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith the LORD.

jps@Jeremiah:7:12 @ For go ye now unto My place which was in Shiloh, where I caused My name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of My people Israel.

jps@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spoke unto you, speaking betimes and often, but ye heard not, and I called you, but ye answered not;

jps@Jeremiah:7:14 @ therefore will I do unto the house, whereupon My name is called, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

jps@Jeremiah:7:15 @ And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

jps@Jeremiah:7:16 @ Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me; for I will not hear thee.

jps@Jeremiah:7:17 @ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

jps@Jeremiah:7:18 @ The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.

jps@Jeremiah:7:19 @ Do they provoke Me? saith the LORD; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

jps@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, Mine anger and My fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the land; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

jps@Jeremiah:7:21 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.

jps@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices;

jps@Jeremiah:7:23 @ but this thing I commanded them, saying: 'Hearken unto My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'

jps@Jeremiah:7:24 @ But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, even in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward,

jps@Jeremiah:7:25 @ even since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day; and though I have sent unto you all My servants the prophets, sending them daily betimes and often,

jps@Jeremiah:7:26 @ yet they hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff; they did worse than their fathers.

jps@Jeremiah:7:27 @ And thou shalt speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken to thee; thou shalt also call unto them, but they will not answer thee.

jps@Jeremiah:7:28 @ Therefore thou shalt say unto them: This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of the LORD their God, nor received correction; faithfulness is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

jps@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the high hills; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.

jps@Jeremiah:7:30 @ For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight, saith the LORD; they have set their detestable things in the house whereon My name is called, to defile it.

jps@Jeremiah:7:31 @ And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into My mind.

jps@Jeremiah:7:32 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Topheth, for lack of room.

jps@Jeremiah:7:33 @ And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

jps@Jeremiah:7:34 @ Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall be desolate.

jps@Jeremiah:8:1 @ At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;