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Jeremiah 5:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Why should I forgive you? Your children have abandoned me and sworn by those who are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery; they gashed themselves  at the   prostitute’s house.

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But in the past, since you didn’t know God,  you were enslaved to things  that by nature are not gods.


Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods!  ) Yet my people have exchanged their   Glory for useless idols.


and so that you do not associate with these nations remaining among you. Do not call on the names of their gods or make an oath to them;  do not serve them or bow in worship to them.


They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.


those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the stars in the sky; those who bow and pledge loyalty to the  Lord but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;  ,


About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.


For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns  because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life  has become evil, and their power is not rightly used,


Then  Jeshurun  , became fat and rebelled – you became fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.


You adulterous people!  Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.


If they will diligently learn the ways of my people   #– #to swear by my name, “As the Lord lives,” just as they taught my people to swear by Baal #– #they will be built up among my people.


Don’t you know that the unrighteous  will not inherit God’s kingdom?  Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters,  adulterers,  or males who have sex with males,  ,


‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner.  They do not fear me,’  says the Lord of Armies.


Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As your god lives, Dan,’ or, ‘As the way  , of Beer-sheba lives’   – they will fall, never to rise again.


When they had pasture, they became satisfied; they were satisfied, and their hearts became proud. Therefore they forgot me.


How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred!


All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.


Cursing,  lying,  murder,   stealing, and adultery  are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.


One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbour’s wife;  another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.


Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your depraved prostitution on the hills, in the fields – I have seen your abhorrent acts. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You are unclean – for how long yet?


If only I had a traveller’s lodging place in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a solemn assembly of treacherous people.


I thought, ‘How I long to make you my sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance  of all the nations.’ I thought, ‘You will call me “My Father” and never turn away from me.’


Evil generation, pay attention to the word of the  Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do my people claim, ‘We will go where we want; we will no longer come to you’?


‘If a man commits adultery  with a married woman #– #if he commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife #– #both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.


Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.


Didn’t you banish the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do?  Whoever comes to ordain himself  with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest  of what are not gods.


‘ “Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?


Then you will answer them, “Because your ancestors abandoned me   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and followed other gods, served them, and bowed in worship to them.  Indeed, they abandoned me and did not keep my instruction.


Can one make gods for himself? But they are not gods.


‘We have sinned and rebelled; you have not forgiven.


For it is a fire that consumes down to Abaddon; it would destroy my entire harvest.


I  observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce.  Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.


If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear   people.





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