Jeremiah 5
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Lutheran reading notes
In Jeremiah chapter 5, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of warnings of judgment, covenant unfaithfulness, and future restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be {any} that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
Jeremiah 5:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
Jeremiah 5:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O LORD, {are} not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, {but} they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah 5:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore I said, Surely these {are} poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, {nor} the judgment of their God.
Jeremiah 5:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, {and} the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, {and} burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 5:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, {and} a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, {and} their backslidings are increased. {evenings: or, deserts} {are increased: Heb. are strong}
Jeremiah 5:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by {them that are} no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah 5:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They were {as} fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Jeremiah 5:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shall I not visit for these {things}? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they {are} not the LORD'S.
Jeremiah 5:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They have belied the LORD, and said, {It is} not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
Jeremiah 5:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the prophets shall become wind, and the word {is} not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Jeremiah 5:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Jeremiah 5:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it {is} a mighty nation, it {is} an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
Jeremiah 5:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Their quiver {is} as an open sepulchre, they {are} all mighty men.
Jeremiah 5:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, {which} thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah 5:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
Jeremiah 5:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these {things} unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land {that is} not yours.
Jeremiah 5:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
Jeremiah 5:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: {understanding: Heb. heart}
Jeremiah 5:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand {for} the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Jeremiah 5:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 5:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
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Your iniquities have turned away these {things}, and your sins have withholden good {things} from you.
Jeremiah 5:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For among my people are found wicked {men}: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. {they lay...: or, they pry as fowlers lie in wait}
Jeremiah 5:26 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As a cage is full of birds, so {are} their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. {cage: or, coop}
Jeremiah 5:27 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Jeremiah 5:28 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shall I not visit for these {things}? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:29 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; {A wonderful...: or, Astonishment and filthiness}
Jeremiah 5:30 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love {to have it} so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? {bear...: or, take into their hands}