Jeremiah 5

Jeremiah 5:2

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

And though they make an outward and fashionable profession of the name of the Lord, in worshipping him, in swearing by him, yet it is but in falsehood and hypocrisy.

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.

Therefore I said, by way of excuse, Alas, these are poor and silly men, ignorant of their duties, taken up wholly with servile trades; and have neither means nor leisure to know the ways of the Lord, and the laws and statutes 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.

I will get me to the nobler and learneder sort, their princes and priests, &c.; and, behold, I found these worse than the other; they have rebelliously broken the yoke of their obedience, and cast away the cords of God’s law.

Jeremiah 5:6

Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evening shall spoil them.

Wherefore, I will give them into the hands of their cruel enemies, the Babylonians; which, like ravenous beasts, shall fall upon them and devour them.

Jeremiah 5:7

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.

How canst thou expect pardon and favour at my hands, O Jerusalem? thy children have forsaken me, and betaken themselves to the worship of false Gods: and, when I pampered them with my blessings, they made an ill use of my mercies, and riotously ran forth into both bodily and spiritual adultery, and impudently trooped together to work filthiness.

Jeremiah 5:10

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.

Go, ye Babylonians, go up on the walls of Jerusalem, and destroy them; but yet make not an utter waste and perfect havock of that sinful city: demolish the battlements, and turrets thereof; for now I, the Lord, do not challenge an interest in them.

Jeremiah 5:14

Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Because they have disparaged my word in the mouths of my prophets, and have said, It is but wind; they shall find it otherwise: behold, I will make thy word to be as fire, and this people as wood; so as this thy despised word shall be to the utter destruction of this nation.

Jeremiah 5:15

Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel.

Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from out of Chaldea, &c.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

Their quiver shall be full of deadly arrows, that shall send many to their graves, &c.

Jeremiah 5:24

That giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

That giveth seasonable rain, in the autumn and spring; and reserveth a dry season, for the gathering in of the harvest.

Jeremiah 5:25

Your iniquities have turned away these things.

If ye have been abridged of these comfortable and meet seasons, ye may thank your iniquities, which have justly procured it.