Jeremiah 5
1 “Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
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 Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
and if alive LORD to say to/for so to/for deception to swear
3 O LORD, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were 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.
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, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their 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 great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and 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 a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.
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 “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ 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 were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
horse to feed to lust to be man: anyone to(wards) woman: wife neighbor his to cry out
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t 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 on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not 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 and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says the LORD.
for to act treacherously to act treacherously in/on/with me house: household Israel and house: household Judah utterance LORD
12 They have denied the LORD, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t 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 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to 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 the LORD, the God of Hosts says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will 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 a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.
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 Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.
quiver his like/as grave to open all their mighty man
17 They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust 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 “But even in those days,” says the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.
and also in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) utterance LORD not to make with you consumption
19 It will happen when you say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will 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 “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
to tell this in/on/with house: household Jacob and to hear: proclaim her in/on/with Judah to/for to say
21 ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
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 Don’t you fear me?’ says the LORD; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t 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 revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
and to/for people [the] this to be heart to rebel and to rebel to turn aside: turn aside and to go: went
24 They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
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 iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
iniquity: crime your to stretch these and sin your to withhold [the] good from you
26 For wicked men are found amongst my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
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 cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
like/as basket full bird so house: home their full deceit upon so to magnify and to enrich
28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
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 “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t 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 “An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
horror: appalled and horror to be in/on/with land: country/planet
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
[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
