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| 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. |
| 5:2 | And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 5:8 | They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. |
| 5:9 | Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
| 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. |
| 5:11 | For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. |
| 5:12 | They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: |
| 5:13 | And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. |
| 5:14 | Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. |
| 5:15 | Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. |
| 5:16 | Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. |
| 5:17 | And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword. |
| 5:18 | Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you. |
| 5:19 | And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours. |
| 5:20 | Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, |
| 5:21 | Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: |
| 5:22 | Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? |
| 5:23 | But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. |
| 5:24 | Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. |
| 5:25 | Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. |
| 5:26 | For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. |
| 5:27 | As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. |
| 5:28 | They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. |
| 5:29 | Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
| 5:30 | A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; |
| 5:31 | The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? |
| 5:1 | Cumpasse ye the weies of Jerusalem, and loke, and biholde ye, and seke ye in the stretis therof, whether ye fynden a man doynge doom, and sekynge feith; and Y schal be merciful to hem. |
| 5:2 | That if also thei seien, The Lord lyueth, yhe, thei schulen swere this falsli. |
| 5:3 | Lord, thin iyen biholden feith; thou hast smyte hem, and thei maden not sorewe; thou hast al tobroke hem, and thei forsoken to take chastisyng; thei maden her faces hardere than a stoon, and nolden turne ayen. |
| 5:4 | Forsothe Y seide, In hap thei ben pore men, and foolis, that knowen not the weie of the Lord, and the doom of her God. |
| 5:5 | Therfor Y schal go to the principal men, and Y schal speke to hem; for thei knewen the weie of the Lord, and the doom of her God. And lo! thei han more broke togidere the yok, and han broke boondis. |
| 5:6 | Therfor a lioun of the wode smoot hem; a wolf at euentid wastide hem, a parde wakynge on the citees of hem. Ech man that goith out of hem, schal be takun; for the trespassyngis of hem ben multiplied, the turnyngis awei of hem ben coumfortid. |
| 5:7 | On what thing mai Y be merciful to thee? Thi sones han forsake me, and sweren bi hem that ben not goddis. Y fillide hem, and thei diden auowtrie, and in the hous of an hoore thei diden letcherie. |
| 5:8 | Thei ben maad horsis, and stalouns, louyeris to wymmen; ech man neiyede to the wijf of his neiybore. |
| 5:9 | Whether Y schal not visite on these thingis, seith the Lord, and schal not my soule take veniaunce in siche a folk? |
| 5:10 | Stye ye on the wallis therof, and distrie ye; but nyle ye make an endyng. Do ye awei the siouns therof, for thei ben not seruauntis of the Lord. |
| 5:11 | For whi the hous of Israel and the hous of Juda hath trespassid bi trespassyng ayens me, seith the Lord; |
| 5:12 | thei denyeden the Lord, and seiden, He is not, nether yuel schal come on vs; we schulen not se swerd and hungur. |
| 5:13 | The profetis spaken ayens the wynd, and noon answer was in hem; therfor these thingis schulen come to hem. |
| 5:14 | The Lord God of oostis seith these thingis, For ye spaken this word, lo! Y yyue my wordis in thi mouth in to fier, and this puple in to trees, and it schal deuoure hem. |
| 5:15 | Lo! thou hous of Israel, seith the Lord, Y schal brynge on you a folk fro fer; a strong folk, an eeld folk, `a folk whos langage thou schalt not knowe, nether schalt vndurstonde what it spekith. |
| 5:16 | The arowe caas therof is as an opyn sepulcre; alle ben stronge men. |
| 5:17 | And it schal ete thi cornes, and it schal deuoure thi breed, thi sones and thi douytris; it schal ete thi flok, and thi droues, it schal ete also thi vyner, and thi fige tre; and it schal al to-breke thi stronge citees bi swerd, in whiche thou hast trist. |
| 5:18 | Netheles in tho daies, seith the Lord, Y schal not make you in to endyng. |
| 5:19 | That if ye seien, Whi hath oure Lord God do alle these thingis to vs? thou schalt seie to hem, As ye forsoken me, and serueden an alien god in youre lond, so ye schulen serue alien goddis in a lond not youre. |
| 5:20 | Telle ye this to the hous of Jacob, and make ye herd in Juda, and seie ye, |
| 5:21 | Here, thou fonned puple, that hast noon herte; whiche han iyen, and seen not, and eeris, and heren not. |
| 5:22 | Therfor schulen not ye drede me, seith the Lord, and schulen not ye make sorewe for my face? Whiche haue set grauel a terme, ether ende, to the see, an euerlastynge comaundement, whiche it schal not passe; and the wawis therof schulen be mouyd, and schulen not haue power; and schulen wexe greet, and schulen not passe it. |
| 5:23 | Forsothe an herte vnbileueful and terrynge to wraththe is maad to this puple; thei departiden, |
| 5:24 | and yeden awei, and thei seiden not in her herte, Drede we oure Lord God, that yiueth to vs reyn tymeful, and lateful in his tyme; that kepith to vs the plente of heruest of the yeer. |
| 5:25 | Youre wickidnessis diden awei these thingis, and youre synnes forbediden good fro you. |
| 5:26 | For ther ben foundun in my puple wickid men, settynge tresoun, as fouleres settynge snaris and trappis, to take men. |
| 5:27 | As a net, ether a trap, ful of briddis, so the housis of hem ben ful of gile. Therfor thei ben magnefied, |
| 5:28 | and maad riche, maad fat with ynne, and maad fat with outforth, and thei passiden worst my wordis; thei demyden not a cause of a widewe, thei dressiden not the cause of a fadirles child, and thei demyden not the doom of pore men. |
| 5:29 | Whether Y schal not visite on these thingis, seith the Lord, ether schal not my soule take veniaunce on sich a folk? |
| 5:30 | Wondur and merueilouse thingis ben maad in the lond; |
| 5:31 | profetis profesieden leesyng, and prestis ioieden with her hondis, and my puple louyde siche thingis. What therfor schal be don in the laste thing therof? |
| 5:1 | Loke thorowe Ierusalem, beholde and se: Seke thorowe her stretes also within, if ye can fynde one man that doeth equall and ryght, or seketh for the truthe, and I shall spare that cytie (sayeth the Lorde) |
| 5:2 | For though they can saye: the Lorde lyueth, yet they sweare to disceyue. |
| 5:3 | Where as thou (O Lord) lokest onely vpon fayth and truthe. Thou hast scourged them, but they toke no repentaunce: thou hast corrected them for amendement, but they refused thy correction. They made theyr faces harder then a stone, and wolde not amende. |
| 5:4 | Therfore I thought in my selfe: peraduenture they are so symple and foolysshe, that they vnderstand nothing of the Lordes way, and iudgementes of our God. |
| 5:5 | Therfore, wyll I go vnto theyr heedes & rulers, & talke with them: yf they knowe the waye of the Lord and the iudgementes of oure God. But these (in lyke maner) haue broken the yocke, and burst the bondes in sondre. |
| 5:6 | Wherfore, a Lyon out of the woodde hath hurte them, and a wolfe in the euenynge shall destroye them. The Leoparde doth lye lurkynge by theyre cytyes, to teare in peces all them that come thereout. For theyr offences are multyplyed, and theyr departynge awaye is encreased. |
| 5:7 | Shulde I then for al this haue mercy vpon the? Thy chyldren haue forsaken me, and sworne by them that are no goddes. And albeit that I fed them to the ful yet they fall to aduoutrye, and haunt harlottes houses. |
| 5:8 | In the desyre of vnclenly lust they are become lyke the stoned horse euery man neyeth at his neyghbours wyfe: |
| 5:9 | Shulde I not correct this, sayth the Lorde? Shulde I not be auenged of euery people, that is lyke vnto this? |
| 5:10 | Clyme vp vpon theyr walles, beate them downe, but destroye them not vtterly, take away theyr foretresses, bycause they are not the Lordes: |
| 5:11 | For vnfaythfully hath the house of Israel and Iuda forsaken me, sayth the Lorde: |
| 5:12 | They haue denyed the Lorde, and sayde: it is not he that loketh vpon vs Tush, there shal no misfortune come vpon vs: we shall see nether swerde ner hunger. |
| 5:13 | As for the warnynge of the Prophetes they take it but for wynde, yea, there is none of these whiche wyll tell them, that such thinges shall happen vnto them. |
| 5:14 | Wherfore, thus sayth the Lorde God of hoostes: bycause ye speake suche wordes, beholde: The wordes that are in thy mouth wyl I turne to fyre, and make the people to be wood, that the fyre maye consume them. |
| 5:15 | Lo, I wyll bryng a people vpon you from farre, O house of Israel (sayeth the Lorde) a myghty people, an old people, a people whose speach thou knowest not, neyther vnderstandest what they saye. |
| 5:16 | Theyr arowes are sodayne death: yea, they them selues be verye gyauntes. |
| 5:17 | This people shal eate vp thy frute & thy meate, yea, they shall deuoure thy sonnes & thy doughters, thy shepe & thy bulockes. They shall eate vp thy grapes, & fygges. As for thy strong & wel defensed cyties, wherin thou dyddest trust, they shall brynge to pouertie, and that thorowe the swerde. |
| 5:18 | Neuerthelesse I wyll not then haue done with you, sayth the Lorde. |
| 5:19 | But yf they saye: wherfore doth the Lorde our God all this vnto vs? Then auswer them: bycause, that lyke as ye haue forsaken me, and serued straunge goddes in your owne lande, euen so shall ye serue other goddes also in a straunge lande. |
| 5:20 | Preache this vnto the house of Iacob, and crye it out in Iuda, and saye thus: |
| 5:21 | Heare this (thou folish & vndiscret people) ye haue eyes but ye se not: eares haue ye, but ye heare not. |
| 5:22 | Feare ye not me, sayth the Lorde? Are ye not asshamed to loke me in the face? whiche bynde the see with the sande, so that it cannot passe his boundes. For though it rage, yet can it do nothynge, and thoughe the waues therof do swell, yet maye they not go ouer. |
| 5:23 | But this people hath a false and obstinate hert, they are departed and gone away fro m |
| 5:24 | They thynke not in theyr hertes: O let vs feare the Lord our God, that giueth vs rayne earlye and late, when nede is: whiche kepeth euer styll the haruest for vs yerly. |
| 5:25 | Neuerthelesse, your mysdedes haue turned these from you, and your synnes haue robbed you hereof. |
| 5:26 | For amonge my people are founde wicked persones, that priuily lay snares & wayte for men, to take them & destroye them. |
| 5:27 | And lyke as a net is full of byrdes, so are theyr houses ful of that whiche they haue gotten with falshed and disceyte. Herof commeth theyr great substaunce and richesse, |
| 5:28 | herof are they fat and welthy, and are more mischeuous then any other. They mynistre not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesse cause, yea, and they prospere: yet they iudge not the poore accordynge to equytie. |
| 5:29 | Shulde I not punish these thinges, sayth the Lord? shulde not I be auenged of all suche people as these be? |
| 5:30 | Horryble & greuous thynges are done in the lande. |
| 5:31 | The prophetes teache falsely, and the preestes receyue gyftes, & my people hath pleasure therin: What wil come therof at the last? |
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