The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

Jeremiah 4:30 (NIV)

What are you doing, you devastated one? Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold? Why highlight your eyes with makeup? You adorn yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you; they want to kill you.

 

[iTheophilus]

"And when you are plundered, What will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, Though you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain you will make yourself fair; Your lovers will despise you; They will seek your life.

- Jeremiah 4:30 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself; She spreads her hands, saying, 'Woe is me now, for my soul is weary Because of murderers!'

- Jeremiah 4:31 (NKJV)

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 5:1 (NKJV)
“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; See now and know; And seek in her open places If you can find a man, If there is anyone who executes judgment, Who seeks the truth, And I will pardon her.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 5:2 (NKJV)
Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ Surely they swear falsely.”

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 5:3 (NKJV)

Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. they made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 5:4 (NKJV)

I thought, “These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 5:5 (NIV)

So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God.’
But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 5:6 (NIV)

Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them,
a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out,
for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 5:7 (NKJV)
“How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And sworn by those that are not gods.
When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 5:8 (NKJV)
“They were like well-fed lusty stallions;
Every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 5:9 (CSB)

Should I not punish them for these things? This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 5:10 (CSB)

Go up among her vineyard terraces and destroy them, but do not finish them off.
Prune away her shoots,for they do not belong to the Lord.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 5:11 (NKJV)
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Have dealt very treacherously with Me,” says the LORD.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 5:12 (NKJV)
They have lied about the LORD, And said, “It is not He. Neither will evil come upon us, Nor shall we see sword or famine.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 5:13 (CSB)

The prophets become only wind, for the Lord’s word is not in them. This will in fact happen to them.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 5:14 (NKJV)
Therefore thus says 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

 

[iTheophilus]

Behold, I will bring a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel," says the LORD. "It is a mighty nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say.

- Jeremiah 5:15 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Their quiver is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men.

- Jeremiah 5:16 (NKJV)

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 5:17 (CSB)

They will consume your harvest and your food.
They will consume your sons and your daughters.
They will consume your flocks and your herds.
They will consume your vines and your fig trees.
With the sword they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust. ​