< Jeremiah 5 >
1 to rove in/on/with outside Jerusalem and to see: see please and to know and to seek in/on/with street/plaza her if to find man if there to make: do justice to seek faithfulness and to forgive to/for her
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 doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.
2 and if alive LORD to say to/for so to/for deception to swear
And though they say: 'As the LORD liveth', surely they swear falsely.
3 LORD eye your not to/for faithfulness to smite [obj] them and not to twist: writh in pain to end: destroy them to refuse to take: take discipline to strengthen: strengthen face their from crag to refuse to/for to return: repent
O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they were not affected; 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.
4 and I to say surely poor they(masc.) be foolish for not to know way: conduct LORD justice God their
And I said: 'Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the ordinance of their God;
5 to go: went to/for me to(wards) [the] great: large and to speak: speak [obj] them for they(masc.) to know way: conduct LORD justice God their surely they(masc.) together to break yoke to tear bond
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of the LORD, and the ordinance of their God.' But these had altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bands.
6 upon so to smite them lion from wood wolf plain to ruin them leopard to watch upon city their all [the] to come out: come from them to tear for to multiply transgression their be vast (faithlessness their *Q(k)*)
Wherefore a lion out of the forest doth slay them, a wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, a leopard watcheth over their cities, every one that goeth out thence is torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased.
7 where? to/for this (to forgive *Q(k)*) to/for you son: child your to leave: forsake me and to swear in/on/with not God and to satisfy [obj] them and to commit adultery and house: home to fornicate to cut
Wherefore should I pardon thee? The children have forsaken Me, and sworn by no-gods; and when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.
8 horse to feed to lust to be man: anyone to(wards) woman: wife neighbor his to cry out
They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.
9 upon these not to reckon: punish utterance LORD and if: surely no in/on/with nation which like/as this not to avenge soul: myself my
Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; and shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 to ascend: rise in/on/with vine-row her and to ruin and consumption not to make to turn aside: turn aside tendril her for not to/for LORD they(masc.)
Go ye up into her rows, and destroy, but make not a full end; take away her shoots; for they are not the LORD'S.
11 for to act treacherously to act treacherously in/on/with me house: household Israel and house: household Judah utterance LORD
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against Me, saith the LORD.
12 to deceive in/on/with LORD and to say not he/she/it and not to come (in): come upon us distress: harm and sword and famine not to see: see
They have belied the LORD, and said: 'It is not He, neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine;
13 and [the] prophet to be to/for spirit: breath and [the] statement nothing in/on/with them thus to make: do to/for them
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them; thus be it done unto them.'
14 to/for so thus to say LORD God Hosts because to speak: speak you [obj] [the] word [the] this look! I to give: make word my in/on/with lip your to/for fire and [the] people [the] this tree: wood and to eat them
Wherefore thus saith the LORD, the 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.
15 look! I to come (in): bring upon you nation from distance house: household Israel utterance LORD nation strong he/she/it nation from forever: antiquity he/she/it nation not to know tongue: language his and not to hear: understand what? to speak: speak
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD; it is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
16 quiver his like/as grave to open all their mighty man
Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
17 and to eat harvest your and food your to eat son: child your and daughter your to eat flock your and cattle your to eat vine your and fig your to beat city fortification your which you(m. s.) to trust in/on/with them in/on/with sword
And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall batter thy fortified cities, wherein thou trusteth, with the sword.
18 and also in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) utterance LORD not to make with you consumption
But even in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
19 and to be for to say underneath: because of what? to make: do LORD God our to/for us [obj] all these and to say to(wards) them like/as as which to leave: forsake [obj] me and to serve: minister God foreign in/on/with land: country/planet your so to serve: minister be a stranger in/on/with land: country/planet not to/for you
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say: 'Wherefore hath the LORD our God done all these things unto us?' then shalt Thou say unto 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.'
20 to tell this in/on/with house: household Jacob and to hear: proclaim her in/on/with Judah to/for to say
Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and announce it in Judah, saying:
21 to hear: hear please this people fool and nothing heart eye to/for them and not to see: see ear to/for them and not to hear: hear
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, that have eyes, and see not, that have ears, and hear not:
22 [obj] me not to fear: revere utterance LORD if: surely no from face: before my not to twist: tremble which to set: put sand border: boundary to/for sea statute: allotment forever: enduring and not to pass him and to shake and not be able and to roar heap: wave his and not to pass him
Fear ye not Me? saith the LORD; Will ye not tremble at My presence? Who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it cannot pass; and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
23 and to/for people [the] this to be heart to rebel and to rebel to turn aside: turn aside and to go: went
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted, and gone.
24 and not to say in/on/with heart their to fear: revere please [obj] LORD God our [the] to give: give rain (autumn rain *Q(K)*) and spring rain in/on/with time his week statute harvest to keep: guard to/for us
Neither say they in their heart: 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth the former rain, and the latter in due season; that keepeth for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'
25 iniquity: crime your to stretch these and sin your to withhold [the] good from you
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.
26 for to find in/on/with people my wicked to see like/as to subside fowler to stand destruction human to capture
For among My people are found wicked men; they pry, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 like/as basket full bird so house: home their full deceit upon so to magnify and to enrich
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;
28 to grow fat to gleam also to pass: trespass word: deed bad: evil judgment not to judge judgment orphan and to prosper and justice needy not to judge
They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29 upon these not to reckon: punish utterance LORD if: surely no in/on/with nation which like/as this not to avenge soul: myself my
Shall I not punish for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 horror: appalled and horror to be in/on/with land: country/planet
An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:
31 [the] prophet to prophesy in/on/with deception and [the] priest to scrape upon hand: themselves their and people my to love: lover so and what? to make: do to/for end her
The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood, and the priests bear rule at their beck; and My people love to have it so; What then will ye do in the end thereof?