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Jeremiah 5 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:1 - Run ye about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye can find one, if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, saith the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:2 - The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3 - O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:4 - Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:5 - I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:7 - In what way shall I forgive thee for these things? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:8 - They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbour's wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:9 - Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:10 - Go up upon her battlements, and break them down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses; for they are the Lord's.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:11 - For the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against me, saith the Lord: the house of Juda also
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:12 - have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:13 - Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:14 - Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because ye have spoken this word, behold, I have made my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:15 - Behold, I will bring upon you a nation from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language one shall not understand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:16 - They are all mighty men:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 - and they shall devour your harvest, and your bread; and shall devour your sons, and your daughters; and they shall devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig-plantations, and your olive yards: and they shall utterly destroy your strong cities, wherein ye trusted, with the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:18 - And it shall come to pass in those days, saith the Lord thy God, that I will not utterly destroy you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:19 - And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that thou shalt say to them, Because ye served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:20 - Proclaim these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in the house of Juda.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:21 - Hear ye now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:22 - will ye not be afraid of me? saith the Lord; and will ye not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, as a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yea, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:23 - But this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:24 - and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfilment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved it for us.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:25 - Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:26 - For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:27 - As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:28 - and they have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:29 - Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 - Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:31 - the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved to have it thus: and what will ye do for the future?
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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