“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her. Gen 18:23-322Ch 16:9Ezk 22:30Isa 59:14-15Isa 59:4Mic 7:1-2Psa 14:3Psa 53:2-4 Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.” Tit 1:16Jer 4:22Ti 3:5Hos 10:4Hos 4:1-2Isa 48:1Jer 7:9Lev 19:12
O LORD, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return. Jer 2:30Jer 7:282Ch 16:9Isa 9:13Zep 3:7Ezk 3:7-9Isa 42:25Psa 11:4-7
Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their God. Hos 4:6Jer 8:7Isa 28:9-13Mat 11:5Isa 27:11Jer 4:22Jer 7:8Jhn 7:48-49 I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. Jer 2:20Jas 2:5-7Act 4:26-27Amo 4:1Ezk 22:25-29Ezk 22:6-8Jer 6:13Luk 18:24 Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased. Hab 1:8Jer 4:7Ezk 22:27Zep 3:3Amo 5:18-19Dan 7:4Dan 7:6Ezk 14:16-21
“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. Gal 4:8Jos 23:7Deu 32:21Jer 2:111Co 8:4Zep 1:5Deu 32:15Jas 4:4 They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife. Jer 13:272Sa 11:2-4Deu 5:18Ezk 22:11Deu 5:21Exo 20:14Exo 20:17Gen 39:9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Jer 9:9Jer 5:29Isa 1:24Deu 32:35Deu 32:43Ezk 5:13-15Ezk 7:9Hos 2:13
“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s. Jer 4:27Amo 9:8Ezk 12:16Hos 1:9Jer 39:8Mat 22:7Psa 78:61-622Ch 36:17 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says the LORD. Jer 3:20Isa 48:8Hos 5:7Hos 6:7Jer 3:6-11
They have denied the LORD, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine. 2Ch 36:161Sa 6:9Deu 29:19Ezk 12:22-28Isa 28:14-15Jer 14:13-14Jer 23:14-17Jer 28:15-17 The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.” Jer 14:15Jer 14:13Job 8:2Hos 9:7Jer 18:18Jer 20:8-11Jer 28:3Job 6:26
Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them. Jer 23:29Jer 1:9Hos 6:5Rev 11:5-62Ki 1:10-14Jer 28:15-17Zec 1:6 Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say. Deu 28:49Jer 4:16Isa 28:11Isa 33:19Isa 5:26Jer 25:9Jer 1:151Co 14:21 Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men. Isa 5:28Psa 5:9Rom 3:13 They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword. Deu 28:33Lev 26:16Hos 8:14Deu 28:30-31Ezk 36:4Hab 3:17-18Isa 62:9Isa 65:22
“But even in those days,” says the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you. Jer 4:27Jer 5:10Rom 11:1-5Ezk 11:13Ezk 9:8 It will happen when you say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’ 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 publish it in Judah, saying, ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear: Act 28:26Ezk 12:2Isa 6:9-10Rom 11:8Jhn 12:40Jer 4:22Mat 13:13-15Mrk 8:18 Don’t you fear me?’ says the LORD; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’ Job 38:10-11Psa 104:9Job 26:10Deu 28:58Pro 8:29Psa 119:120Jer 10:7Nam 1:4
“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone. Jer 6:28Deu 21:18Heb 3:12Hos 11:7Psa 95:10Hos 4:8Isa 1:5Isa 31:6 They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’ Psa 147:8Gen 8:22Jol 2:23Act 14:17Jer 14:22Mat 5:451Ki 17:1Amo 4:7
“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. Isa 59:2Psa 107:34Psa 107:17Deu 28:23-24Jer 2:17-19Jer 3:3Lam 3:39Lam 4:22 For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men. Pro 1:11Psa 64:5Ezk 22:2-12Jer 18:22Psa 10:9-101Sa 19:10-11Hab 1:14-15Isa 58:1 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich. Amo 8:4-6Hab 2:9-11Hos 12:7-8Jer 9:6Mic 1:12Pro 1:11-13Rev 18:2Mic 6:10-11 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy. Isa 1:23Deu 32:15Jer 7:6Psa 73:12Zec 7:101Co 5:1Amo 4:1Ezk 16:47-52
“Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Jer 5:9Mal 3:5Jas 5:4Jer 9:9
“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land. Hos 6:10Jer 23:14Isa 1:2Jer 2:12 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it? Ezk 13:6Jer 14:14Mic 2:112Th 2:9-112Ti 4:3-42Co 11:13-152Pe 2:1-2Deu 32:29