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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. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; sure­ly they swear false­ly. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 8 They were as fed hors­es in the morn­ing: ev­ery one neighed af­ter his neighbour's wife. 9 Shall I not vis­it for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a na­tion as this? 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. 11 For the house of Is­rael and the house of Ju­dah have dealt very treach­er­ous­ly against me, saith the LORD. 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: 13 And the prophets shall be­come wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. 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. 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. 16 Their quiver is as an open sepul­chre, they are all mighty men. 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. 18 Nev­er­the­less in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you. 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. 20 De­clare this in the house of Ja­cob, and pub­lish it in Ju­dah, say­ing, 21 Hear now this, O fool­ish peo­ple, and with­out un­der­stand­ing; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 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? 23 But this peo­ple hath a re­volt­ing and a re­bel­lious heart; they are re­volt­ed and gone. 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. 25 Your in­iq­ui­ties have turned away these things, and your sins have with­hold­en good things from you. 26 For among my peo­ple are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that set­teth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their hous­es full of de­ceit: there­fore they are be­come great, and wax­en rich. 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. 29 Shall I not vis­it for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a na­tion as this? 30 A won­der­ful and hor­ri­ble thing is com­mit­ted in the land; 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?