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Jeremiah 5:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

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From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.

Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.

But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.




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