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Jeremiah 5:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Therefore, lions from the forest slay them, wolves of the desert ravage them, Leopards keep watch round their cities: all who come out are torn to pieces, For their crimes are many, their rebellions numerous.

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Its officials within it are roaring lions; Its judges are desert wolves that have no bones to gnaw by morning.

Swifter than leopards are their horses, and faster than desert wolves. Their horses spring forward; they come from far away; they fly like an eagle hastening to devour.

Up comes the lion from its lair, the destroyer of nations has set out, has left its place, To turn your land into a desolation, your cities into an uninhabited waste.

Within her, her officials are like wolves tearing prey, shedding blood and destroying lives to extort profit.

The beast I saw was like a leopard, but it had feet like a bear’s, and its mouth was like the mouth of a lion. To it the dragon gave its own power and throne, along with great authority.

For I am like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah; It is I who tear the prey and depart, I carry it away and no one can save it.

After this I looked and saw another beast, like a leopard; on its back were four wings like those of a bird, and it had four heads. To this beast dominion was given.

The first was like a lion, but with eagle’s wings. While I watched, the wings were plucked; it was raised from the ground to stand on two feet like a human being, and given a human mind.

But she increased her prostitution, recalling the days of her youth when she had served as a prostitute in the land of Egypt.

At every intersection you built yourself a dais so that you could degrade your beauty by spreading your legs for every passerby, multiplying your prostitutions.

Her foes have come out on top, her enemies are secure; Because the Lord has afflicted her for her many rebellions. Her children have gone away, captive before the foe.

As when a lion comes up from a thicket of the Jordan to a permanent pasture, So in an instant, I will chase them off; I will establish there whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who holds me accountable? What shepherd can stand against me?

The anger of the Lord will not abate until he has carried out completely the decisions of his heart. In days to come you will fully understand it.

All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not seek you out. I struck you as an enemy would strike, punishing you cruelly.

Like a lion he leaves his lair, and their land is made desolate By the sweeping sword, and the burning wrath of the Lord.

Even though our crimes bear witness against us, act, Lord, for your name’s sake— Even though our rebellions are many, and we have sinned against you.

Your own wickedness chastises you, your own infidelities punish you. Know then, and see, how evil and bitter is your forsaking the Lord, your God, And your showing no fear of me, oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts.

Has not forsaking the Lord, your God, done this to you?

Against him lions roar, they raise their voices. They have turned his land into a waste; his cities are charred ruins, without an inhabitant.

For our transgressions before you are many, our sins bear witness against us. Our transgressions are present to us, and our crimes we acknowledge:

You bring darkness and night falls, then all the animals of the forest wander about.

Then Ezra, the priest, stood up and said to them: “Your apostasy in taking foreign women as wives has added to Israel’s guilt.

I said: “My God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to raise my face to you, my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven.

And now here you are, offspring of sinful stock, rising up in your ancestors’ place to add still more to the Lord’s blazing anger against the Israelites.

Why have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

Why then do these people resist with persistent rebellion? Why do they cling to deception, refuse to turn back?

Why cry out over your wound? There is no relief for your pain. Because of your great guilt, your numerous sins, I have done this to you.

Likewise all the princes of Judah, the priests, and the people added treachery to treachery, practicing all the abominations of the nations and defiling the Lord’s house which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. The Fall of Judah.

Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion: repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me,

Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they do not defend, the widow’s plea does not reach them.

You people of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I become a wilderness to Israel, a land of gloom? Why then do my people say, “We have moved on, we will not come to you any more”?

Even the stork in the sky knows its seasons; Turtledove, swift, and thrush observe the time of their return, But my people do not know the order of the Lord.




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