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Jeremiah 5:23

New American Bible - revised edition

But this people’s heart is stubborn and rebellious; they turn and go away,

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They were not to be like their ancestors, a rebellious and defiant generation, A generation whose heart was not constant, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Forty years I loathed that generation; I said: “This people’s heart goes astray; they do not know my ways.”

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Return, O Israelites, to him whom you have utterly deserted.

More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?

Like watchers in the fields they surround her, for she has rebelled against me—oracle of the Lord.

Let me go to the leaders and speak with them; For they must know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. But, one and all, they have broken the yoke, torn off the harness.

Arch-rebels are they all, dealers in slander, bronze and iron, all of them, destroyers they are.

My people have their mind set on apostasy; though they call on God in unison, he shall not raise them up.

They feed on the sin of my people, and are greedy for their iniquity.

Ah! Rebellious and polluted, the tyrannical city!

If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen to his father or mother, and will not listen to them even though they discipline him,

For I already know how rebellious and stiff-necked you will be. Why, even now, while I am alive among you, you have been rebels against the Lord! How much more, then, after I am dead!

Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.




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