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Text -- Jeremiah 5:1-6 (NET)
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Judah is Justly Deserving of Coming Judgment
5:1 The Lord said, “Go up and down through the streets of Jerusalem . Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares . See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful . If you can, then I will not punish this city.
5:2 These people make promises in the name of the Lord . But the fact is , what they swear to is really a lie .”
5:3 Lord , I know you look for faithfulness . But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse . Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected . They have become as hardheaded as a rock . They refuse to change their ways .
5:4 I thought , “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands . They do not know what their God requires of them.
5:5 I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the Lord demands . Surely they know what their God requires of them.” Yet all of them , too , have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him .
5:6 So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the desert they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out . For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things .
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NET Notes: Jer 5:5 Heb “have broken the yoke and torn off the yoke ropes.” Compare Jer 2:20 and the note there.
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