Jeremiah 5:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 I will get me unto the [a]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.
6 Wherefore a [b]lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the wilderness shall destroy them: a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goeth out thence, shall be torn in pieces, because their trespasses are many, and their rebellions are increased.
7 How should I spare thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and [c]sworn by them that are no gods: though I fed them to the full, yet they committed adultery, and assembled themselves by companies in the harlot’s houses.
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- Jeremiah 5:5 He speaketh this to the reproach of them which should govern and teach others, and yet are farther out of the way than the simple people.
- Jeremiah 5:6 Meaning, Nebuchadnezzar and his army.
- Jeremiah 5:7 He showeth that to swear by anything than by God, is to forsake him.
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