nkjv Jeremiah:5:3-9 SEEK
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O LORD ,
are not Your eyes on the truth ?
You have stricken them ,
But they have not grieved ;
You have consumed them ,
But they have refused to receive correction .
They have made their faces harder than rock ;
They have refused to return .
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Therefore I said , "
Surely these are poor .
They are foolish ;
For they do not know the way of the LORD ,
The judgment of their God .
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I will go to the great men and speak to them ,
For they have known the way of the LORD ,
The judgment of their God ."
But these have altogether broken the yoke And burst the bonds .
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Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them ,
A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them ;
A leopard will watch over their cities .
Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces ,
Because their transgressions are many ;
Their backslidings have increased .
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How shall I pardon you for this ?
Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods .
When I had fed them to the full ,
Then they committed adultery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots '
houses .
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They were like well-fed lusty stallions ;
Every one neighed after his neighbor '
s wife .
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Shall I not punish them for these things ?"
says the LORD . "
And shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this ?