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God’s judgment is just, for Judah’s sins are many.

BibleGateway: Jeremiah 5:1-13

ESV Text: Jeremiah 5:1-13


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     1 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 executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; 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 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will get me unto the 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 lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. 7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. 8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

     10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’S. 11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD. 12 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 prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.(KJV)


Hymn: TLH 328:
O Jesus, Lamb of God Thou Art

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1. O Jesus, Lamb of God, Thou art 
The Life and Comfort of my heart. 
A sinner poor I come to Thee 
And bring my many sins with me. 

2. O God, my sin indeed is great; 
I groan beneath the dreadful weight. 
Be merciful to me, I pray; 
Take guilt and punishment away. 

3. Saint John the Baptist points to Thee 
And bids me cast my sin on Thee; 
For Thou hast left Thy throne on high 
To suffer for the world and die. 

4. Help me to mend my ways, O Lord, 
And gladly to obey Thy Word. 
While here I live, abide with me; 
And when I die, take me to Thee.