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5 “Roam about in the streets of Jerusalem,
and see now and know
and seek in her plazas!
If you can find a man,
if there is one who does justice, who seeks honesty,
then I will forgive her.
2 And if they say, ‘As Yahweh is alive,’
surely they swear for falsehood.”
3 Yahweh, are not your eyes for honesty?
You struck them, but they do not tremble.
You have completely defeated them; they refuse to receive discipline.
They harden their faces more than rock;
they refuse to return.
4 So I myself said, “They are only ones who are poor.
They are foolish,
for they do not know the way of Yahweh,
the ordinance of their God.
5 I shall go for myself to the great ones
and speak to them,
for they themselves know the way of Yahweh,
the ordinance of their God.”
But they together broke the yoke;
they tore to pieces the fetters.
6 Therefore a lion from the thicket will strike them down;
a wolf of the deserts will devastate them;
a leopard watches over their cities;
all who go out from there will be torn apart,
for their transgressions increase;
their apostasies are numerous.
7 How, for this, could I forgive you?
Your sons have abandoned me
and have sworn by not-gods.
And I satisfied them,
but they committed adultery
and assembled themselves to the house of the prostitute.
8 They were well-fed, lusty horses. [fn]
Each man neighed to the wife of his neighbor.
9 Should I not punish because of these
—the declaration of Yahweh—
or even against a nation that is like this,
should I not avenge myself?
10 Go up onto her terraces [fn] and destroy!
But do not bring complete destruction.
Remove her vines,
for they are not of Yahweh.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
have utterly betrayed me
—the declaration of Yahweh.
12 They have denied Yahweh,
and they said, “He is not,
and no evil will come upon us,
and we will not see sword or famine.
13 And the prophets are for wind,
and the word is not in them,
thus it will be done to them.”
14 So thus says Yahweh the God of hosts:
“Because you have spoken this word,
behold, I shall place my word in your mouth for a fire,
and this people will be wood! And it will consume them.
15 Behold! I shall bring a nation against you from far away, house of Israel
—the declaration of Yahweh—
it is a lasting nation; it is a nation from ancient times!
A nation whose tongue you do not know,
and you will not hear what they speak.
16 Its quiver is like an open grave.
All of them are warriors.
17 And it will consume your harvest and your bread.
They will consume your sons and your daughters.
It will consume your flock and your cattle;
It will consume your vine and your fig tree.
It will beat down with a sword
your cities of fortification that you trusted in.
18 But even in those days—the declaration of Yahweh—I shall not make with you a complete end. 19 And it will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you abandoned me and served gods of a foreigner in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land not yours.’
20 Declare this to the house of Jacob
and announce it in Judah, saying:
21 ‘Hear this, please, foolish people and without heart;
they have eyes but do not see;
they have ears but do not hear.
22 Should you not fear me—the declaration of Yahweh—
or should you not tremble from my face?
For I have placed sand as a border for the sea,
an eternal decree and it does not cross over it,
and if it rises and falls, still it would not prevail,
and if its waves roar, still they do not cross over it.
23 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart.
It turns aside and walks away.
24 And they do not say in their hearts,
“Let us please fear Yahweh our God,
the one who gives the rain—both the early rain and the late rain—in its season,
he keeps the decreed weeks of the harvest for us.”
25 Your iniquities turned away these things,
and your sins have held back from you the good.
26 For wicked ones are found with my people;
he watches like fowlers lying in wait; [fn]
they set a snare; they capture people.
27 Like a cage full of birds,
thus their houses are full of deceit,
thus they grow large and become rich.
28 They are fat; they are sleek.[fn]
They also trespass with words of evil.
They do not plead the legal cause—
the legal cause of the fatherless one.
And they prosper, but the justice of the needy ones—
they have not given justice.
29 Why, on account of these things should I not punish?
—the declaration of Yahweh—
if against a nation that is like this
should my soul not avenge itself?
30 Desolation and horror
has happened in the land.
31 The prophets prophesy with falsehood,
and the priests rule with their hands,
and my people love it so,
but what will you do in the end?’”
The meaning of the Hebrew for well-fed, lusty is uncertain.
The meaning of this word is uncertain
The meaning of the word for lying in wait is uncertain.
The meaning of the word forthey are sleek is uncertain. The Hebrew word only occurs once in Scripture.
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