1 Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be any that executes judgment, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it. Compare verse2 commentaries
3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse5 commentaries
5 I will get me to the great men, and will speak to 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. Compare verse1 commentary
6 Why 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 goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. Compare verse1 commentary
7 How shall I pardon you for this? your 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. Compare verse2 commentaries
8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. Compare verse12 commentaries
9 Shall I not visit for these things? said the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Compare verse1 commentary
10 Go you up on her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's. Compare verse1 commentary
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, said the LORD. Compare verse2 commentaries
12 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: Compare verse2 commentaries
13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them. Compare verse1 commentary
14 Why thus said the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. Compare verse2 commentaries
15 See, I will bring a nation on you from far, O house of Israel, said the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know not, neither understand what they say. Compare verse1 commentary
17 And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fenced cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword. Compare verse1 commentary
18 Nevertheless in those days, said the LORD, I will not make a full end with you. Compare verse1 commentary
19 And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why does the LORD our God all these things to us? then shall you answer them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours. Compare verse2 commentaries
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Compare verse3 commentaries
22 Fear you not me? said the LORD: will you 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? Compare verse4 commentaries
23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Compare verse1 commentary
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Compare verse1 commentary
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you. Compare verse1 commentary
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men. Compare verse1 commentary
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. Compare verse1 commentary
28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, 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. Compare verse1 commentary
29 Shall I not visit for these things? said the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Compare verse1 commentary
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof? Compare verse1 commentary