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Jeremiah 5:30 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land. "

Jeremiah 5:30

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28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

29 “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

30 “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

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Jeremiah 5:1

"“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her."

Jeremiah 5:2

"Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”"

Jeremiah 5:3

"O LORD, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return."

Jeremiah 5:4

"Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their God."

Jeremiah 5:5

"I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds."

Jeremiah 5:6

"Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased."

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