Jeremiah 5:9 — Meaning and Application

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“Shall I not visit for these {things}? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?”

Jeremiah 5:9

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How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by {them that are} no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

They were {as} fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Shall I not visit for these {things}? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they {are} not the LORD'S.

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

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Jeremiah 5:1

"Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be {any} that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it."

Jeremiah 5:2

"And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely."

Jeremiah 5:3

"O LORD, {are} not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast 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

"Therefore I said, Surely these {are} poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, {nor} the judgment of their God."

Jeremiah 5:5

"I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, {and} the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, {and} burst the bonds."

Jeremiah 5:6

"Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, {and} a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, {and} their backslidings are increased. {evenings: or, deserts} {are increased: Heb. are strong}"

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