Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
“
Go up
and down
the
streets of Jerusalem .
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
.
Go to
and fro
in
streets of Jerusalem ,
And see,
I
pray
you,
and
know,
And
seek
in
her broad
places,
if ye
find a man
, If
there
be
one
doing
judgment
, seeking
stedfastness
--
Then am
I propitious
to
her
.
Although
they say, ‘As
surely
as
the
LORD
lives
, ’
they are
swearing
falsely
. ”
And
if
they say, `Jehovah
liveth
, '
Surely
to
a
falsehood
they swear
.
O
LORD
, do
not
Your
eyes look
for
truth
? 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
.
Jehovah
, Thine
eyes ,
are
they
not
on
stedfastness
? Thou
hast
smitten
them, and
they have
not
grieved,
Thou
hast
consumed
them, They have
refused to receive
instruction,
They made their faces harder than a
rock,
They
have
refused to turn
back
.
Then
I said, “They
are only
the
poor ;
they have played
the
fool
, for they do
not know
the way of the
LORD
, the justice
of their God.
And
I --
I
said, `Surely
these
`
are '
poor ,
They have been
foolish
, For they have
not known
the way of Jehovah
, The judgment
of their God.
I will
go
to the powerful
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
.
I get
me
to the great,
and I
speak with
them ,
For
they have
known
the way of Jehovah
, The judgment
of their God. '
Surely
they together
have
broken the yoke ,
They
have
drawn
away
the bands
.
Therefore a lion from
the forest will
strike
them
down
, 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
.
Therefore smitten
them
hath
a lion out
of
the forest, A wolf of
the deserts
doth
spoil
them ,
A leopard is
watching
over
their cities, Every
one
who is
going
out of
them
is
torn ,
For many have
been
their
transgressions
, Mighty
have
been
their backslidings
.
“Why
should
I forgive
you?
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
.
For
this
I am
not
propitious
to
thee,
Thy
sons
have forsaken Me ,
And are
satisfied
by that which
is
not god,
I satisfy
them
, and
they commit
adultery ,
And at the house
of a
harlot
They
gather
themselves
together
.
They
are
well-
fed ,
lusty
stallions
, each neighing
after
his
neighbor’s
wife.
Fed horses
--
they
have
been
early
risers
, Each to
the
wife of
his
neighbour
they
neigh
.
Should
I
not
punish
them
for these things?”
declares
the
LORD.
“Should
I not avenge
Myself
on such
a nation as this?
For these do
I not lay
a
charge?
An
affirmation
of
Jehovah,
And
on a nation such
as this ,
Doth
not
My
soul
avenge
itself
?
Go up through
her vineyards
and ravage
them
, but
do
not finish
them
off.
Strip
off
her branches, for they do
not belong
to
the
LORD.
Go ye
up on
her walls,
and destroy
, And
a
completion
make
not ,
Turn
aside
her branches, for they `are'
not Jehovah's,
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have
been
utterly
unfaithful
to
Me
, ”
declares
the
LORD
.
For dealt
treacherously
against
Me
have
the house of Israel ,
And the house of Judah, an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
They have lied about
the
LORD
and said:
“He
will
not
do
anything;
harm
will
not come to
us ;
we will
not see sword
or
famine
.
They have lied against
Jehovah,
And they
say,
``It
is'
not He,
Nor
come in
against
us doth
evil,
Yea,
sword
and
famine
we do
not see.
The prophets are
but
wind, for
the word is not in them .
So
let
their
own
predictions
befall
them. ”
And
the prophets become
wind, And
the word is not in them ,'
--
thus
it
is
done
by
them.
Therefore this
is
what
the
LORD
God of Hosts says:
“
Because you
have
spoken
this word, I will
make
My words a
fire
in your
mouth and this people the
wood it consumes
.
Therefore ,
thus
said
Jehovah,
God of Hosts ,
Because of
your
speaking
this word, Lo,
I am
making
My words in thy
mouth become
fire,
And this people wood ,
and
it hath
devoured
them
.
Behold
, I am bringing a
distant
nation
against you, 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
.
Lo
, I am bringing against you a
nation
from
afar
, O house of Israel, an affirmation
of
Jehovah,
A
nation --
strong
it
`is'
, a
nation --
from
of
old
it
`is'
, A nation --
thou
knowest
not its
tongue,
Nor
understandest
what
it
speaketh
.
Their
quivers
are
like
open graves;
they
are
all mighty men
.
Its
quiver
`is'
as
an
open sepulchre,
All of
them
--
mighty ones
.
They
will
devour
your
harvest and food;
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
. ”
And
it
hath
consumed
thy
harvest and thy
bread,
They consume thy
sons ,
and thy
daughters ,
It
consumeth
thy
flock,
and thy
herd,
It
consumeth
thy
vine,
and thy
fig -tree,
It
maketh
poor
thy
fenced
cities ,
In which thou
art
trusting
--
by
the
sword
.
“Yet
even in those days, ”
declares
the
LORD
, “
I will
not make a
full
end
of
you.
And
even in those days, an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
, I do
not make you a
completion
.
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
. ’”
And it
hath
come
to
pass,
when ye
say
, `
For what hath
Jehovah
our God done to us all
these
? '
That
thou
hast
said
unto
them, `
As ye
have forsaken Me ,
And serve
the
gods of
a
foreigner
in your land, So do
ye
serve strangers
in a land not yours
.
Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim
it in Judah :
Declare ye
this in the house of Jacob ,
And sound
ye
it in Judah ,
saying,
“
Hear this, O foolish and senseless
people
, who
have
eyes but
do
not
see, who
have
ears but
do
not
hear.
Hear ye,
I
pray
you,
this, O people,
foolish and without
heart
, Eyes they
have,
and
they
see not
, Ears they
have,
and
they
hear not
.
Do you
not fear Me
? ”
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
.
Me
do ye
not fear ,
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
? From
My
presence
are
ye
not pained?
Who hath
made
sand the border
of
the sea, A
limit
age-during,
and
it passeth
not
over
it
, They shake
themselves,
and
they are
not
able,
Yea,
sounded
have
its
billows,
and
they
pass
not
over
.
But
these
people have
stubborn
and rebellious hearts.
They have turned aside and gone
away
.
And
this
people hath
an
apostate
and rebellious heart,
They have turned aside ,
and they
go
on
.
They have not said in their hearts
, ‘
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. ’
And
they have not said in their heart
, `
Let us fear ,
we
pray
you,
Jehovah
our God, who is
giving
rain
, The
sprinkling
and the
gathered
, in its
season, The appointed weeks of harvest He
keepeth
for
us
. '
Your iniquities have diverted
these from
you;
your sins have deprived
you of
My
bounty
.
Your iniquities have turned
these away,
And
your sins have kept
the
good
from
you.
For among My people are
wicked
men;
they
watch
like
fowlers
lying
in
wait;
they set a trap to
catch
men.
For the
wicked
have
been
found
among My people .
It
looketh
about
the
covering
of
snares,
They have
set up
a trap --
men they
capture
.
Like
cages
full of birds
, so their houses are full of deceit .
Therefore they have become
powerful
and rich.
As
a
cage
full of fowls
, So their houses are full of deceit ,
Therefore they have been
great,
and are
rich.
They have grown
fat and
sleek
, 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.
They have been
fat, they
have shone,
Yea,
they
have
overpassed
the acts
of the evil,
Judgment
they have not judged,
The judgment
of the fatherless --
and
they prosper ,
And
the judgment
of the needy they
have
not
judged
.
Should
I
not
punish
them
for these things?”
declares
the
LORD.
“Should
I
not avenge
Myself
on such
a nation as this?
For these do
not I
inspect,
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah,
On a nation such
as this ,
Doth
not
My
soul
avenge
itself
?
A
horrible
and shocking
thing has
happened
in the land.
An
astonishing
and horrible
thing hath
been
in the land.
The prophets prophesy
falsely, and the priests rule by their own
authority.
My people love
it so, but
what will
you
do in
the
end?
The prophets have
prophesied
falsely, And the priests bear
rule by their means,
And
My people have
loved
`
it '
so, And
what do they
at
its
latter
end?
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