No One Is Just
“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Gen 18:23-322Ch 16:9Ezk 22:30Isa 59:14-15Isa 59:4Mic 7:1-2Psa 14:3Psa 53:2-4
Look now and take note; search her squares.
If you can find a single person,
anyone who acts justly,
anyone who seeks the truth,
then I will forgive the city.
Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ Tit 1:16Jer 4:22Ti 3:5Hos 10:4Hos 4:1-2Isa 48:1Jer 7:9Lev 19:12
they are swearing falsely.”
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? Jer 2:30Jer 7:282Ch 16:9Isa 9:13Zep 3:7Ezk 3:7-9Isa 42:25Psa 11:4-7
You struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They have made their faces harder than stone
and refused to repent.
Then I said, “They are only the poor; Hos 4:6Jer 8:7Isa 28:9-13Mat 11:5Isa 27:11Jer 4:22Jer 7:8Jhn 7:48-49
they have played the fool,
for they do not know the way of the LORD,
the justice of their God.
I will go to the powerful Jer 2:20Jas 2:5-7Act 4:26-27Amo 4:1Ezk 22:25-29Ezk 22:6-8Jer 6:13Luk 18:24
and speak to them.
Surely they know the way of the LORD,
the justice of their God.”
But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke
and torn off the chains.
Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, Hab 1:8Jer 4:7Ezk 22:27Zep 3:3Amo 5:18-19Dan 7:4Dan 7:6Ezk 14:16-21
a wolf from the desert will ravage them.
A leopard will lie in wait near their cities,
and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces.
For their rebellious acts are many,
and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
“Why should I forgive you? Gal 4:8Jos 23:7Deu 32:21Jer 2:111Co 8:4Zep 1:5Deu 32:15Jas 4:4
Your children have forsaken Me
and sworn by gods that are not gods.
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery
and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, Jer 13:272Sa 11:2-4Deu 5:18Ezk 22:11Deu 5:21Exo 20:14Exo 20:17Gen 39:9
each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
Should I not punish them for these things?” Jer 9:9Jer 5:29Isa 1:24Deu 32:35Deu 32:43Ezk 5:13-15Ezk 7:9Hos 2:13
declares the LORD.
“Should I not avenge Myself
on such a nation as this?
Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, Jer 4:27Amo 9:8Ezk 12:16Hos 1:9Jer 39:8Mat 22:7Psa 78:61-622Ch 36:17
but do not finish them off.
Strip off her branches,
for they do not belong to the LORD.
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Jer 3:20Isa 48:8Hos 5:7Hos 6:7Jer 3:6-11
have been utterly unfaithful to Me,”
declares the LORD.
They have lied about the LORD and said: 2Ch 36:161Sa 6:9Deu 29:19Ezk 12:22-28Isa 28:14-15Jer 14:13-14Jer 23:14-17Jer 28:15-17
“He will not do anything; harm will not come to us;
we will not see sword or famine.
The prophets are but wind, Jer 14:15Jer 14:13Job 8:2Hos 9:7Jer 18:18Jer 20:8-11Jer 28:3Job 6:26
for the word is not in them.
So let their own predictions befall them. 1”
Judgment Proclaimed
Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: Jer 23:29Jer 1:9Hos 6:5Rev 11:5-62Ki 1:10-14Jer 28:15-17Zec 1:6
“Because you have spoken this word,
I will make My words a fire in your mouth
and this people the wood it consumes.
Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, Deu 28:49Jer 4:16Isa 28:11Isa 33:19Isa 5:26Jer 25:9Jer 1:151Co 14:21
O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
“It is an established nation,
an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know
and whose speech you do not understand.
Their quivers are like open graves; Isa 5:28Psa 5:9Rom 3:13
they are all mighty men.
They will devour your harvest and food; Deu 28:33Lev 26:16Hos 8:14Deu 28:30-31Ezk 36:4Hab 3:17-18Isa 62:9Isa 65:22
they will consume your sons and daughters;
they will eat up your flocks and herds;
they will feed on your vines and fig trees.
With the sword they will destroy
the fortified cities in which you trust.”
“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you. Jer 4:27Jer 5:10Rom 11:1-5Ezk 11:13Ezk 9:8 And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’” 1Ki 9:8-9Deu 28:47-48Jer 22:8-9Jer 13:22Jer 16:13Deu 29:24-28Jer 16:10-112Ch 7:21-22
Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:
“Hear this, Act 28:26Ezk 12:2Isa 6:9-10Rom 11:8Jhn 12:40Jer 4:22Mat 13:13-15Mrk 8:18
O foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear.
Do you not fear Me?” Job 38:10-11Psa 104:9Job 26:10Deu 28:58Pro 8:29Psa 119:120Jer 10:7Nam 1:4
declares the LORD.
“Do you not tremble before Me,
the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea,
an enduring barrier it cannot cross?
The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.
They roar but cannot cross it.
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. Jer 6:28Deu 21:18Heb 3:12Hos 11:7Psa 95:10Hos 4:8Isa 1:5Isa 31:6
They have turned aside and gone away.
They have not said in their hearts, Psa 147:8Gen 8:22Jol 2:23Act 14:17Jer 14:22Mat 5:451Ki 17:1Amo 4:7
‘Let us fear the LORD our God,
who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season,
who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
Your iniquities have diverted these from you; Isa 59:2Psa 107:34Psa 107:17Deu 28:23-24Jer 2:17-19Jer 3:3Lam 3:39Lam 4:22
your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
For among My people are wicked men; Pro 1:11Psa 64:5Ezk 22:2-12Jer 18:22Psa 10:9-101Sa 19:10-11Hab 1:14-15Isa 58:1
they watch like fowlers lying in wait;
they set a trap to catch men.
Like cages full of birds, Amo 8:4-6Hab 2:9-11Hos 12:7-8Jer 9:6Mic 1:12Pro 1:11-13Rev 18:2Mic 6:10-11
so their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
They have grown fat and sleek, Isa 1:23Deu 32:15Jer 7:6Psa 73:12Zec 7:101Co 5:1Amo 4:1Ezk 16:47-52
and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked.
They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless,
that they might prosper;
nor have they defended
the rights of the needy.
Should I not punish them for these things?” Jer 5:9Mal 3:5Jas 5:4Jer 9:9
declares the LORD.
“Should I not avenge Myself
on such a nation as this?
A horrible and shocking thing Hos 6:10Jer 23:14Isa 1:2Jer 2:12
has happened in the land.
The prophets prophesy falsely, Ezk 13:6Jer 14:14Mic 2:112Th 2:9-112Ti 4:3-42Co 11:13-152Pe 2:1-2Deu 32:29
and the priests rule by their own authority.
My people love it so,
but what will you do in the end?