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Jeremiah 5:9

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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?

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  1. Jeremiah 5:7

    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.

  2. Jeremiah 5:8

    They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

  3. Jeremiah 5:10

    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.

  4. Jeremiah 5:11

    For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.

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