The Old Testament
| Book | Chapter | Verse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah | 5 | (26) For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. | |
| Jeremiah | 5 | (27) As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. | |
| Jeremiah | 5 | (28) They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. | |
| Jeremiah | 5 | (29) Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? | |
| Jeremiah | 5 | (30) A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; | |
| Jeremiah | 5 | (31) The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (1) O YE children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (2) I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (3) The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (4) Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (5) Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (6) For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (7) As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (8) Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (9) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (10) To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (11) Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of da | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (12) And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (13) For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | (14) They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. | |