Jeremiah 5:21-29

Hear this, you foolish and senseless   people.  They have eyes, but they don’t see. They have ears, but they don’t hear.  Do you not fear me? This is the  Lord’s declaration. Do you not tremble before me, the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea, an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?  The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot pass over it. But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.  They have turned aside and have gone away. They have not said to themselves, ‘Let’s fear the  Lord our God,  who gives the seasonal rains, both autumn and spring,  who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’ Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you. Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,  for wicked men live among my people. They watch like hunters  lying in wait.  , They set a trap;  they catch men. Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit.  Therefore they have grown powerful and rich. They have become fat  and sleek. They have also excelled in evil matters. They have not taken up cases, such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper, and they have not defended the rights of the needy.  Should I not punish them for these things? This is the  Lord’s declaration. Should I not avenge myself  on such a nation as this?

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