Verse 12
Jeremiah 5:12
Young's Literal Translation
12
They have lied against Jehovah, And they say, '[It is] not He, Nor come in against us doth evil, Yea, sword and famine we do not see.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽחֲשׁוּ֙ בַּ/יהוָ֔ה וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹא ה֑וּא וְ/לֹא תָב֤וֹא עָלֵ֨י/נוּ֙ רָעָ֔ה וְ/חֶ֥רֶב וְ/רָעָ֖ב ל֥וֹא נִרְאֶֽה
English Translation
They have lied about the LORD and said, "He is not," and "Evil will not come upon us, and sword and famine we will not see."
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Chapter 5 Context
1
Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places,...
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2
And if they say, 'Jehovah liveth,' Surely to a falsehood they swear.
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3
Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved...
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4
And I -- I said, 'Surely these [are] poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way o...
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5
I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment o...
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6
Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopa...
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7
For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is...
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8
Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
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9
For these do I not lay a charge? An affirmation of Jehovah, And on a nation such as this, Doth not M...
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10
Go ye up on her walls, and destroy, And a completion make not, Turn aside her branches, for they [ar...
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11
For dealt treacherously against Me have the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, an affirmation...
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12
They have lied against Jehovah, And they say, '[It is] not He, Nor come in against us doth evil, Yea...
13
And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,' -- thus it is done by them.
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14
Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God (Elohim) of Hosts, Because of your speaking this word, Lo, I am ma...
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15
Lo, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah, A na...
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16
Its quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.
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17
And it hath consumed thy harvest and thy bread, They consume thy sons, and thy daughters, It consume...
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18
And even in those days, an affirmation of Jehovah, I do not make you a completion.
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19
And it hath come to pass, when ye say, 'For what hath Jehovah our God (Elohim) done to us all these?...
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20
Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, And sound ye it in Judah, saying,
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21
Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ea...
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22
Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand...
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23
And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.
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24
And they have not said in their heart, 'Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God (Elohim), who is g...
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25
Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.
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26
For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have s...
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27
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are...
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28
They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they h...
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29
For these do not I inspect, an affirmation of Jehovah, On a nation such as this, Doth not My soul av...
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30
An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.
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31
The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have l...
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