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Jeremiah 5:4

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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.

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  1. Jeremiah 5:2

    And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.

  2. Jeremiah 5:3

    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.

  3. Jeremiah 5:5

    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.

  4. Jeremiah 5:6

    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.

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