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Jeremiah 5:2–8

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And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.
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.
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.
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.
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.
¶ 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.
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
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From verse 2

  1. Titus 1:16Rank 1 from verse 2
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    16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

  2. Jeremiah 4:2Rank 2 from verse 2
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    2And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

  3. 2 Timothy 3:5Rank 3 from verse 2
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    5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

  4. Hosea 10:4Rank 4 from verse 2
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    4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

  5. Hosea 4:1–2Rank 5 from verse 2
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    1HEAR the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  6. Isaiah 48:1Rank 6 from verse 2
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    1HEAR ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

  7. Jeremiah 7:9Rank 7 from verse 2
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    9Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

  8. Leviticus 19:12Rank 8 from verse 2
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    12¶ And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

  9. 1 Timothy 1:10Rank 9 from verse 2
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    10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

  10. Hosea 4:15Rank 10 from verse 2
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    15¶ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.

  11. Malachi 3:5Rank 11 from verse 2
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    5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

  12. Zechariah 5:3–4Rank 12 from verse 2
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    3Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

    4I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

From verse 3

  1. Jeremiah 2:30Rank 1 from verse 3
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    30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

  2. Jeremiah 7:28Rank 2 from verse 3
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    28But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

  3. 2 Chronicles 16:9Rank 3 from verse 3
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    9For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

  4. Isaiah 9:13Rank 4 from verse 3
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    13¶ For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

  5. Zephaniah 3:7Rank 5 from verse 3
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    7I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

  6. Ezekiel 3:7–9Rank 6 from verse 3
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    7But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

    8Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

    9As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

  7. Isaiah 42:25Rank 7 from verse 3
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    25Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

  8. Psalms 11:4–7Rank 8 from verse 3
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    4The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

    5The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

    6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

    7For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

  9. Zephaniah 3:1–2Rank 9 from verse 3
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    1WOE to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

    2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.

  10. 2 Chronicles 28:22Rank 10 from verse 3
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    22¶ And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.

  11. Ezekiel 24:13Rank 11 from verse 3
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    13In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

  12. Hebrews 12:9Rank 12 from verse 3
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    9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

  13. Isaiah 1:5–6Rank 13 from verse 3
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    5¶ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

    6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

  14. Isaiah 48:4Rank 14 from verse 3
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    4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

  15. Jeremiah 19:15Rank 15 from verse 3
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    15Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

  16. Jeremiah 32:19Rank 16 from verse 3
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    19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

  17. Jeremiah 7:26Rank 17 from verse 3
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    26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

  18. Proverbs 21:29Rank 18 from verse 3
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    29A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

  19. Proverbs 22:12Rank 19 from verse 3
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    12The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

  20. Proverbs 23:35Rank 20 from verse 3
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    35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

  21. Proverbs 27:22Rank 21 from verse 3
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    22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

  22. Psalms 51:6Rank 22 from verse 3
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    6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

  23. Romans 2:2Rank 23 from verse 3
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    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

  24. Romans 2:4–5Rank 24 from verse 3
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    4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

    5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  25. Zechariah 7:11–12Rank 25 from verse 3
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    11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

    12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

From verse 4

  1. Hosea 4:6Rank 1 from verse 4
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    6¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

  2. Jeremiah 8:7Rank 2 from verse 4
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    7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

  3. Isaiah 28:9–13Rank 3 from verse 4
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    9¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

    10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

    11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

    12To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

    13But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

  4. Matthew 11:5Rank 4 from verse 4
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    5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

  5. Isaiah 27:11Rank 5 from verse 4
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    11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

  6. Jeremiah 4:22Rank 6 from verse 4
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    22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  7. Jeremiah 7:8Rank 7 from verse 4
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    8¶ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

  8. John 7:48–49Rank 8 from verse 4
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    48Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?

    49But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

From verse 5

  1. Jeremiah 2:20Rank 1 from verse 5
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    20¶ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

  2. James 2:5–7Rank 2 from verse 5
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    5Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

    6But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

    7Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

  3. Acts 4:26–27Rank 3 from verse 5
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    26The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

    27For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

  4. Amos 4:1Rank 4 from verse 5
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    1HEAR this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

  5. Ezekiel 22:25–29Rank 5 from verse 5
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    25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

    26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

    27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

    28And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.

    29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  6. Ezekiel 22:6–8Rank 6 from verse 5
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    6Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

    7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

    8Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

  7. Jeremiah 6:13Rank 7 from verse 5
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    13For 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.

  8. Luke 18:24Rank 8 from verse 5
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    24And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

  9. Luke 19:14Rank 9 from verse 5
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    14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

  10. Malachi 2:7Rank 10 from verse 5
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    7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

  11. Matthew 19:23–26Rank 11 from verse 5
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    23¶ Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

    24And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

    25When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

    26But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

  12. Micah 3:1–4Rank 12 from verse 5
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    1AND I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

    2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

    3Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

    4Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

  13. Micah 3:11Rank 13 from verse 5
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    11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.

  14. Micah 7:3–4Rank 14 from verse 5
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    3¶ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

    4The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

  15. Psalms 2:2–3Rank 15 from verse 5
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    2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

    3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

  16. Zephaniah 3:3–5Rank 16 from verse 5
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    3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

    4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

    5The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

From verse 6

  1. Habakkuk 1:8Rank 1 from verse 6
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    8Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

  2. Jeremiah 4:7Rank 2 from verse 6
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    7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  3. Ezekiel 22:27Rank 3 from verse 6
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    27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

  4. Zephaniah 3:3Rank 4 from verse 6
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    3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

  5. Amos 5:18–19Rank 5 from verse 6
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    18Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

    19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

  6. Daniel 7:4Rank 6 from verse 6
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    4The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.

  7. Daniel 7:6Rank 7 from verse 6
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    6After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

  8. Ezekiel 14:16–21Rank 8 from verse 6
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    16Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

    17¶ Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

    18Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.

    19¶ Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

    20Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

    21For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

  9. Ezekiel 16:25Rank 9 from verse 6
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    25Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

  10. Ezekiel 23:19Rank 10 from verse 6
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    19Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

  11. Ezra 10:10Rank 11 from verse 6
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    10And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

  12. Ezra 9:6Rank 12 from verse 6
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    6And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

  13. Hosea 13:7–8Rank 13 from verse 6
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    7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

    8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

  14. Hosea 5:14Rank 14 from verse 6
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    14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

  15. Isaiah 59:12Rank 15 from verse 6
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    12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

  16. Jeremiah 14:7Rank 16 from verse 6
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    7¶ O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

  17. Jeremiah 16:10–12Rank 17 from verse 6
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    10¶ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?

    11Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

    12And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

  18. Jeremiah 2:15Rank 18 from verse 6
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    15The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

  19. Jeremiah 2:17Rank 19 from verse 6
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    17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

  20. Jeremiah 2:19Rank 20 from verse 6
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    19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

  21. Jeremiah 25:38Rank 21 from verse 6
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    38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

  22. Jeremiah 30:14Rank 22 from verse 6
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    14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

  23. Jeremiah 30:24Rank 23 from verse 6
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    24The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

  24. Jeremiah 49:19Rank 24 from verse 6
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    19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

  25. Jeremiah 9:12–14Rank 25 from verse 6
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    12¶ Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

    13And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

    14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

  26. Lamentations 1:5Rank 26 from verse 6
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    5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

  27. Nahum 2:11–12Rank 27 from verse 6
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    11Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?

    12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

  28. Numbers 32:14Rank 28 from verse 6
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    14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.

  29. Psalms 104:20Rank 29 from verse 6
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    20Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

  30. Revelation 13:2Rank 30 from verse 6
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    2And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

From verse 7

  1. Galatians 4:8Rank 1 from verse 7
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    8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

  2. Joshua 23:7Rank 2 from verse 7
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    7That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

  3. Deuteronomy 32:21Rank 3 from verse 7
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    21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

  4. Jeremiah 2:11Rank 4 from verse 7
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    11Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

  5. 1 Corinthians 8:4Rank 5 from verse 7
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    4As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

  6. Zephaniah 1:5Rank 6 from verse 7
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    5And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;

  7. Deuteronomy 32:15Rank 7 from verse 7
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    15¶ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

  8. James 4:4Rank 8 from verse 7
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    4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

  9. Jeremiah 23:10Rank 9 from verse 7
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    10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

  10. Ezekiel 22:11Rank 10 from verse 7
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    11And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

  11. Hosea 4:2Rank 11 from verse 7
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    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  12. Jeremiah 12:16Rank 12 from verse 7
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    16And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Lord liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

  13. Jeremiah 13:27Rank 13 from verse 7
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    27I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

  14. 1 Corinthians 6:9Rank 14 from verse 7
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    9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

  15. Amos 8:14Rank 15 from verse 7
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    14They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

  16. Ezekiel 16:49–50Rank 16 from verse 7
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    49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

    50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

  17. Hosea 11:8Rank 17 from verse 7
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    8How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

  18. Hosea 13:6Rank 18 from verse 7
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    6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

  19. Hosea 4:13–15Rank 19 from verse 7
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    13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

    14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

    15¶ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.

  20. Hosea 7:4Rank 20 from verse 7
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    4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

  21. James 5:1–5Rank 21 from verse 7
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    1GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

    2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

    3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

    4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

    5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

  22. Jeremiah 2:31Rank 22 from verse 7
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    31¶ O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

  23. Jeremiah 29:22–23Rank 23 from verse 7
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    22And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The Lord make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

    23Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.

  24. Jeremiah 3:19Rank 24 from verse 7
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    19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

  25. Jeremiah 9:2Rank 25 from verse 7
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    2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  26. Leviticus 20:10Rank 26 from verse 7
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    10¶ And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

  27. Malachi 3:5Rank 27 from verse 7
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    5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

  28. Matthew 23:37–38Rank 28 from verse 7
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    37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

    38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

  29. Numbers 25:1–3Rank 29 from verse 7
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    1AND Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

    2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

    3And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.

  30. Psalms 50:18Rank 30 from verse 7
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    18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

  31. Hebrews 13:4Rank 31 from verse 7
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    4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

From verse 8

  1. Jeremiah 13:27Rank 1 from verse 8
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    27I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

  2. 2 Samuel 11:2–4Rank 2 from verse 8
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    2¶ And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

    3And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

    4And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

  3. Deuteronomy 5:18Rank 3 from verse 8
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    18Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

  4. Ezekiel 22:11Rank 4 from verse 8
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    11And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

  5. Deuteronomy 5:21Rank 5 from verse 8
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    21Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

  6. Exodus 20:14Rank 6 from verse 8
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    14Thou shalt not commit adultery.

  7. Exodus 20:17Rank 7 from verse 8
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    17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

  8. Genesis 39:9Rank 8 from verse 8
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    9There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

  9. Jeremiah 29:23Rank 9 from verse 8
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    23Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.

  10. Job 31:9Rank 10 from verse 8
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    9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;

  11. Matthew 5:27–28Rank 11 from verse 8
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    27¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

    28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

Definitions

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DEFINED WORDS

Jeremiah 5:2

COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Jeremiah 5:3

COMBINED MEANING

eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

truth

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1. That which is true; conformity to fact or reality. 2. Faithfulness. 3. God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hast

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Sense 1: Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience. Sense 2: Used as an auxiliary verb.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

stricken

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Sense 1: Struck, smitten, pierced, afflicted, or visited with a blow or calamity. Sense 2: In the expression stricken in age or years, advanced and far gone in age.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

grieved

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of grieve, meaning to feel pain of mind or heart; to be in pain on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

consumed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of consume. Sense 1: To destroy, use up, or bring to an end. Sense 2: To waste away or be exhausted.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

refused

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Rejected, declined, denied, withheld, turned away from, would not accept, receive, choose, obey, permit, or yield.

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COMBINED MEANING

correction

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Discipline, chastening, or instruction that corrects error and restores what is right.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

rock

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1. A mass of stone or a rocky place. 2. Figuratively, a secure refuge, strength, foundation, or cause of stumbling. 3. A title or figure for God or Christ.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

return

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Sense 1: To go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again. Sense 2: The act or time of coming back or recurring.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Jeremiah 5:4

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

judgment

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The act, authority, process, cause, or result of judging; discernment, legal hearing, verdict, ordinance, justice, government, vindication, condemnation, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Jeremiah 5:5

COMBINED MEANING

get

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To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

speak

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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

judgment

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The act, authority, process, cause, or result of judging; discernment, legal hearing, verdict, ordinance, justice, government, vindication, condemnation, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

yoke

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Sense 1: A frame fitted to the necks of draft animals, joining them for work. Sense 2: A pair of animals so joined. Sense 3: A bond, burden, service, or condition of subjection.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

burst

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To break, rend, or open suddenly by force or pressure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

bonds

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Sense 1: Binding ties or obligations. Sense 2: Conditions of servitude, restraint, or captivity.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Jeremiah 5:6

COMBINED MEANING

wherefore

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1. For that reason, or as a conclusion from what precedes; therefore or consequently. 2. For what reason or purpose; why.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

lion

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Sense 1: A large, powerful wild cat. Sense 2: Figuratively, one fierce or strong.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

wolf

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Sense 1: A fierce predatory animal. Sense 2: By figure, a destroyer.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

spoil

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Sense 1: Goods or captives taken from an enemy. Sense 2: As a verb, to plunder, rob, strip, ruin, or deprive of what is possessed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

watch

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Sense 1: To remain awake, alert, attentive, vigilant, observant, or on guard. Sense 2: A guard or guard duty, a station or group keeping guard, or a division of the night so guarded.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

thence

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From that place, position, point, or source; away from there.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Jeremiah 5:7

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

pardon

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To forgive an offense or offender; to remit an offense, guilt, or penalty.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sworn

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Bound, promised, affirmed, testified, or covenanted by a solemn oath; or caused another to enter such an obligation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

committed

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1. Performed or did an act, offence, trespass, or sin. 2. Entrusted, delivered, or placed a person or thing in another’s charge, custody, care, or keeping, or gave it over to a place or course.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

assembled

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of assemble, meaning to gather or bring together into one place or company; to meet or collect together.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

troops

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Gathered companies, bands, or multitudes, often armed or prepared for action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

houses

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Buildings or dwelling places; by extension, the families, households, estates, possessions, royal lines, or bodies of people associated with them.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Jeremiah 5:8

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

morning

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Sense 1: The beginning or early part of the day, including hours before daylight. Sense 2: The dawn or a beginning compared with dawn.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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5:1RUN 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.

5:2And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.

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5:3O 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.

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5:4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.

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5:5I 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.

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5:6Wherefore 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.

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5:7¶ 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.

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5:8They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

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5:9Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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