Jeremiah 5 (NET)

Jeremiah 5:1¹The 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 18:23-322 Chr 16:9Ezek 22:30Isa 59:14-15Isa 59:4Mic 7:1-2Ps 14:3Ps 53:2-4Prov 20:6Ps 12:1

Jeremiah 5:2²These people make promises in the name of the Lord. But the fact is, what they swear to is really a lie.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Titus 1:16Jer 4:22 Tim 3:5Hos 10:4Hos 4:1-2Isa 48:1Jer 7:9Lev 19:121 Tim 1:10Hos 4:15

Jeremiah 5:3³Lord, 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:30Jer 7:282 Chr 16:9Isa 9:13Zeph 3:7Ezek 3:7-9Isa 42:25Ps 11:4-7Zeph 3:1-22 Chr 28:22

Jeremiah 5:4⁴I 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 4:6Jer 8:7Isa 28:9-13Matt 11:5Isa 27:11Jer 4:22Jer 7:8John 7:48-49

Jeremiah 5:5⁵I 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:20Jas 2:5-7Acts 4:26-27Amos 4:1Ezek 22:25-29Ezek 22:6-8Jer 6:13Luke 18:24Luke 19:14Mal 2:7

Jeremiah 5:6⁶So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the rift valley 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 1:8Jer 4:7Ezek 22:27Zeph 3:3Amos 5:18-19Dan 7:4Dan 7:6Ezek 14:16-21Ezek 16:25Ezek 23:19

Jeremiah 5:7⁷The Lord asked, “How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:8Josh 23:7Deut 32:21Jer 2:111 Cor 8:4Zeph 1:5Deut 32:15Jas 4:4Jer 23:10Ezek 22:11

Jeremiah 5:8⁸They are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor’s wife.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 13:272 Sam 11:2-4Deut 5:18Ezek 22:11Deut 5:21Exod 20:14Exod 20:17Gen 39:9Jer 29:23Job 31:9

Jeremiah 5:9⁹I will surely punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord. “I will surely bring retribution on such a nation as this!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:9Jer 5:29Isa 1:24Deut 32:35Deut 32:43Ezek 5:13-15Ezek 7:9Hos 2:13Hos 8:13Jer 23:2

Jeremiah 5:10¹⁰The Lord commanded the enemy, “March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:27Amos 9:8Ezek 12:16Hos 1:9Jer 39:8Matt 22:7Ps 78:61-622 Chr 36:172 Kgs 24:2-4Ezek 14:17

Jeremiah 5:11¹¹For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 3:20Isa 48:8Hos 5:7Hos 6:7Jer 3:6-11

Jeremiah 5:12¹²“These people have denied what the Lord says. They have said, ‘That is not so! No harm will come to us. We will not experience war and famine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:161 Sam 6:9Deut 29:19Ezek 12:22-28Isa 28:14-15Jer 14:13-14Jer 23:14-17Jer 28:15-17Jer 28:4Jer 43:2-3

Jeremiah 5:13¹³The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 14:15Jer 14:13Job 8:2Hos 9:7Jer 18:18Jer 20:8-11Jer 28:3Job 6:26

Jeremiah 5:14¹⁴Because of that, the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies said to me: “Because these people have spoken like this, I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood, which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:29Jer 1:9Hos 6:5Rev 11:5-62 Kgs 1:10-14Jer 28:15-17Zech 1:6

Jeremiah 5:15¹⁵The Lord says, “Listen, nation of Israel! I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:49Jer 4:16Isa 28:11Isa 33:19Isa 5:26Jer 25:9Jer 1:151 Cor 14:21Hab 1:5-10Isa 5:7

Jeremiah 5:16¹⁶All its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:28Ps 5:9Rom 3:13

Jeremiah 5:17¹⁷They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:33Lev 26:16Hos 8:14Deut 28:30-31Ezek 36:4Hab 3:17-18Isa 62:9Isa 65:22Jer 1:15Jer 4:26

Jeremiah 5:18¹⁸“Yet even then I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 5:10Jer 4:27Rom 11:1-5Ezek 11:13Ezek 9:8

Jeremiah 5:19¹⁹“So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ tell them, ‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 9:8-9Deut 28:47-48Jer 22:8-9Jer 13:22Jer 16:13Deut 29:24-28Jer 16:10-112 Chr 7:21-22Deut 4:25-28Jer 2:13

Jeremiah 5:20²⁰“Proclaim this message among the descendants of Jacob. Make it known throughout Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Jeremiah 5:21²¹Tell them: ‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 28:26Ezek 12:2Isa 6:9-10Rom 11:8Jer 4:22John 12:40Matt 13:13-15Mark 8:18Jer 8:7Ps 94:8

Jeremiah 5:22²²‘You should fear me!’ says the Lord. ‘You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 38:10-11Ps 104:9Job 26:10Deut 28:58Prov 8:29Ps 119:120Jer 10:7Nah 1:4Mark 4:39Rev 15:4

Jeremiah 5:23²³But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 6:28Deut 21:18Heb 3:12Hos 11:7Ps 95:10Hos 4:8Isa 1:5Isa 31:6Jer 17:9Jer 5:5

Jeremiah 5:24²⁴They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us revere the Lord our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 147:8Gen 8:22Joel 2:23Acts 14:17Jer 14:22Matt 5:451 Kgs 17:1Amos 4:7Deut 11:13-14Deut 28:12

Jeremiah 5:25²⁵Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:2Ps 107:34Ps 107:17Deut 28:23-24Jer 2:17-19Jer 3:3Lam 3:39Lam 4:22

Jeremiah 5:26²⁶Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 1:11Ps 64:5Ezek 22:2-12Jer 18:22Ps 10:9-101 Sam 19:10-11Hab 1:14-15Isa 58:1Jer 4:22Luke 5:10

Jeremiah 5:27²⁷Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 8:4-6Hab 2:9-11Hos 12:7-8Jer 9:6Mic 1:12Prov 1:11-13Rev 18:2Mic 6:10-11

Jeremiah 5:28²⁸That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:23Deut 32:15Jer 7:6Ps 73:12Zech 7:101 Cor 5:1Amos 4:1Ezek 16:47-52Ezek 5:6-7Jas 5:4-5

Jeremiah 5:29²⁹I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord. “I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 5:9Mal 3:5Jas 5:4Jer 9:9

Jeremiah 5:30³⁰Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 6:10Jer 23:14Isa 1:2Jer 2:12

Jeremiah 5:31³¹The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 13:6Jer 14:14Mic 2:112 Thess 2:9-112 Tim 4:3-42 Cor 11:13-152 Pet 2:1-2Deut 32:29Ezek 22:14Isa 10:3