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chapter 5
1
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about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the
broad places thereof, if you can fins a man that executeth judgement, and
seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.
2 And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they
will swear falsely.
3 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck
them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused
to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and
they have refused to return.
4 But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that
know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.
5 I will go therefore to the great men, and I will
speak to them: for they known the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God:
and behold these have together broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a
wolf in the evening, hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities:
every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions
are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.
7 How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have
forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and
they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house.
8 They are become as amorous horses and stallions,
every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these things, sayeth the Lord?
and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
10 Scale down the walls thereof, and throw them down, but
do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not
the Lord's.
11 For the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have
greatly transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
12 They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he:
and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.
13 The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was
no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.
14 Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: Because you
have spoken this word, behold I will make my words in thy mouth as fire, and
this people as wood, and it shall devour them.
15 Behold I will bring upon you a nation from afar, O
house of Israel, saith the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient nation, a nation
whose language thou shalt not know, nor understand what they say.
16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all
valiant.
17 And they shall eat up thy corn, and thy bread: they
shall devour thy sons, and thy daughters: they shall eat up thy flocks, and thy
herds: they shall eat thy vineyards, and thy figs: and with the sword they
shall destroy thy strong cities, wherein thou trustest.
18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will
not bring you to utter destruction.
19 And if you shall say: why hath the Lord our God done
all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and
served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land
that is not your own.
20 Declare ye this to the house of Jacob, and publish
it in Juda, saying:
21 Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding:
who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.
22 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will
you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an
everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof
shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not
pass over it.
23 But the heart of this people is become hard of
belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.
24 And they have not said in their heart: let us fear
the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season:
who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned these things away, and
your sins have withholden good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men, that lie
in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
27 As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full
of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
28 They are grown gross and fat: andhave most wickedly
transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have
not managed the cause of the fatherless, they have not judged the judgement of
the poor.
29 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord?
or shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?
30 Astonishing and wonderful things have been done in
the land.
31 The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests
clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done
in the end thereof?
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