LEB JER chapter 5

LEB JER Chapter 5

and look please, and take note,

and search at its public squares,

if you can find a person who does justice,

who seeks honesty,

so that I may forgive it.
2 [fn][fn] they swear falsely.”
3 O Yahweh, do not your eyes look for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain,

you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline.

They have hardened their faces more than rock,
they have refused to turn back.
4 They are just simple people, they are foolish,

for they know not the way of Yahweh,

the law[fn] of their God.
5  and let me speak with them,

for they know the way of Yahweh,

the law[fn] of their God.”

However, they together have broken the yoke,

they have torn to pieces the bonds.
6 the forest will kill them, A wolf from the desert plains[fn] will devastate them.

A leopard is watching their cities,

everyone who goes out from there will be torn,

because their transgressions are many,

their apostasies are numerous.
7 [fn] can I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me,

and they have sworn by those who are not gods.

But I fed them to the full,

and they committed adultery,

and flocked to the house of a prostitute.
8  they neighed each to the wife of his neighbor.
9 things shall I not punish?”[fn] Yahweh, “and on a nation who is like this, shall I not take revenge?
10  but you must not make complete destruction.

Remove her branches,

for they are not to Yahweh.
11  have dealt utterly treacherously with me,”[fn] Yahweh.
12  ‘Not he,[fn] evil will not come on us,
we will see neither sword nor famine.
13  and the word is not in them.’

Thus it will be done to them.”

14 [fn] thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, “Because you have spoken this word,

look, I am making my words in your mouth like a fire,

and this people wood, and it will devour them.
15 am about to bring on you a nation from afar, O house of Israel,”[fn] Yahweh.

“It is an enduring nation, it is[fn]

A nation whose language you do not know,
and you cannot understand what they speak.
16 is like an open tomb, all of them are warriors.
17  they will eat your sons and your daughters,

they will eat your flock and your herd,

they will eat your vine and your fig tree,

they will smash with the sword[fn]

in which you trust.

18 “But even in those days,” declares[fn] Yahweh, “I will not make you a complete destruction. 19 And then,[fn] when youpeople say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all of these things to us?’ Then you will say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and have served gods of a foreign land in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that does not belong to you.’[fn]

20 and proclaim it in Judah, saying,
21 O foolish and[fn] people,[fn] but do not see,
[fn] but do not hear.’
22 [fn] Yahweh, “Do you not tremble[fn]

For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,

[fn] and it cannot pass over it,

and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail,

and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it.
23  they have turned aside and have gone away.
24  ‘Let us fear please Yahweh our God,

the one who gives the autumn rain[fn] andthe spring rain[fn] in its season,

[fn] he keeps for us.’
25  and your sins have kept away the good from you.
26  they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers,

they set up a trap,

they catch humans.
27 [fn] so their houses are full of fraud.

[fn] they have become great,

and they have become rich.
28  they have grown sleek,

also,[fn]

They do not judge with justice,

the legal cause of the orphan,

or allow it to succeed,

and the legal case of the poor,

they do not defend.
29 things shall I not punish?”[fn] Yahweh, “and on a nation who is like this, shall I not take revenge?

31 [fn] and the priests rule[fn]

and my people love it[fn] so much.

But what will you do[fn]

?:? Literally “Life of Yahweh”

?:? Literally “to thus”

?:? Or “ordinance”

?:? Or “Arabah”

?:? Literally “Why to this”

?:? Literally “a declaration of”

?:? Literally “and”

?:? Literally “To thus”

?:? Literally “a declaration of”

?:? Literally “a nation from a long time ago”

?:? Literally “the cities of your fortification”

?:? Literally “a declaration of”

?:? Literally “And it will happen”

?:? Literally “a land not to you”

?:? Literally “without heart”

?:? Literally “eyes for them”

?:? Literally “ears for them”

?:? Literally “a declaration of”

?:? Literally “from the face of me”

?:? Literally “a limit of eternity”

?:? Hebrew “early rain”

?:? Hebrew “late rain”

?:? Literally “weeks due harvest”

?:? Hebrew “bird”

?:? Literally “Unto thus”

?:? Literally “they cross over evil deeds”

?:? Literally “a declaration of”

?:? Literally “in the lie”

?:? Literally “by their hands”

?:? Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

?:? Literally “to end her”