Jeremias 5

1 Run you about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you can find [one], if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, says the Lord.

to rove in/on/with outside Jerusalem and to see: see please and to know and to seek in/on/with street/plaza her if to find man if there to make: do justice to seek faithfulness and to forgive to/for her

2 The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?

and if alive LORD to say to/for so to/for deception to swear

3 O Lord, your eyes are upon faithfulness: you have scourged them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

LORD eye your not to/for faithfulness to smite [obj] them and not to twist: writh in pain to end: destroy them to refuse to take: take discipline to strengthen: strengthen face their from crag to refuse to/for to return: repent

4 Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.

and I to say surely poor they(masc.) be foolish for not to know way: conduct LORD justice God their

5 I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.

to go: went to/for me to(wards) [the] great: large and to speak: speak [obj] them for they(masc.) to know way: conduct LORD justice God their surely they(masc.) together to break yoke to tear bond

6 Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to [their] houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.

upon so to smite them lion from wood wolf plain to ruin them leopard to watch upon city their all [the] to come out: come from them to tear for to multiply transgression their be vast (faithlessness their *Qk)

7 In what [way] shall I forgive you for these things? Your sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots' houses.

where? to/for this (to forgive *Qk) to/for you son: child your to leave: forsake me and to swear in/on/with not God and to satisfy [obj] them and to commit adultery and house: home to fornicate to cut

8 They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbor's wife.

horse to feed to lust to be man: anyone to(wards) woman: wife neighbor his to cry out

9 Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

upon these not to reckon: punish utterance LORD and if: surely no in/on/with nation which like/as this not to avenge soul: myself my

10 Go up upon her battlements, and break [them] down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses: for they are the Lord's.

to ascend: rise in/on/with vine-row her and to ruin and consumption not to make to turn aside: turn aside tendril her for not to/for LORD they(masc.)

11 For the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against me, says the Lord: the house of Juda also

for to act treacherously to act treacherously in/on/with me house: household Israel and house: household Judah utterance LORD

12 have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.

to deceive in/on/with LORD and to say not he/she/it and not to come (in): come upon us distress: harm and sword and famine not to see: see

13 Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.

and [the] prophet to be to/for spirit: breath and [the] statement nothing in/on/with them thus to make: do to/for them

14 Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because you have spoken this word, behold, I have made my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

to/for so thus to say LORD God Hosts because to speak: speak you [obj] [the] word [the] this look! I to give: make word my in/on/with lip your to/for fire and [the] people [the] this tree: wood and to eat them

15 Behold, I [will] bring upon you a nation from far, O house of Israel, says the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language one shall not understand.

look! I to come (in): bring upon you nation from distance house: household Israel utterance LORD nation strong he/she/it nation from forever: antiquity he/she/it nation not to know tongue: language his and not to hear: understand what? to speak: speak

16 [They are] all mighty men:

quiver his like/as grave to open all their mighty man

17 and they shall devour your harvest, and your bread; and shall devour your sons, and your daughters; and they shall devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig-plantations, and your olive yards: and they shall utterly destroy your strong cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

and to eat harvest your and food your to eat son: child your and daughter your to eat flock your and cattle your to eat vine your and fig your to beat city fortification your which you(m. s.) to trust in/on/with them in/on/with sword

18 And it shall come to pass in those days, says the Lord your God, that I will not utterly destroy you.

and also in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) utterance LORD not to make with you consumption

19 And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Therefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you shall say to them, Because you served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

and to be for to say underneath: because of what? to make: do LORD God our to/for us [obj] all these and to say to(wards) them like/as as which to leave: forsake [obj] me and to serve: minister God foreign in/on/with land: country/planet your so to serve: minister be a stranger in/on/with land: country/planet not to/for you

20 Proclaim these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in the house of Juda.

to tell this in/on/with house: household Jacob and to hear: proclaim her in/on/with Judah to/for to say

21 Hear you now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:

to hear: hear please this people fool and nothing heart eye to/for them and not to see: see ear to/for them and not to hear: hear

22 will you not be afraid of me? says the Lord; and will you not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, [as] a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yes, it shall rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.

[obj] me not to fear: revere utterance LORD if: surely no from face: before my not to twist: tremble which to set: put sand border: boundary to/for sea statute: allotment forever: enduring and not to pass him and to shake and not be able and to roar heap: wave his and not to pass him

23 But this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back:

and to/for people [the] this to be heart to rebel and to rebel to turn aside: turn aside and to go: went

24 and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved [it] for us.

and not to say in/on/with heart their to fear: revere please [obj] LORD God our [the] to give: give rain (autumn rain *QK) and spring rain in/on/with time his week statute harvest to keep: guard to/for us

25 Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.

iniquity: crime your to stretch these and sin your to withhold [the] good from you

26 For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught [them].

for to find in/on/with people my wicked to see like/as to subside fowler to stand destruction human to capture

27 As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:

like/as basket full bird so house: home their full deceit upon so to magnify and to enrich

28 and they have transgressed [the rule of] judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

to grow fat to gleam also to pass: trespass word: deed bad: evil judgment not to judge judgment orphan and to prosper and justice needy not to judge

29 Shall I not visit for these things? says the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

upon these not to reckon: punish utterance LORD if: surely no in/on/with nation which like/as this not to avenge soul: myself my

30 Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;

horror: appalled and horror to be in/on/with land: country/planet

31 the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved [to have it] thus: and what will you do for the future.

[the] prophet to prophesy in/on/with deception and [the] priest to scrape upon hand: themselves their and people my to love: lover so and what? to make: do to/for end her