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Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 5

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Chapter 5 of Jeremiah—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Go roving about in the streets of Jerusalem and see, now, and know, and seek for yourselves in her public squares whether YOU can find a man,1 whether there exists anyone doing justice,2 anyone seeking faithfulness,3 and I shall forgive her.
  2. Even if they should say: “As Jehovah is alive!” they would thereby be swearing to sheer falsehood.4
  3. ¶ O Jehovah, are not those eyes of yours toward faithfulness?5 You have struck them,6 but they did not become ill.7 You exterminated them.8 They refused to take discipline.9 They made their faces harder than a crag.10 They refused to turn back.11
  4. Even I myself had said: “Surely they are of low class. They acted foolishly, for they have ignored the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.[a]12
  5. I will go my way to the great ones and speak with them;13 for they themselves must have taken note of the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.14 Surely they themselves must have all together broken the yoke; they must have torn apart the bands.”15
  6. ¶ That is why a lion out of the forest has struck them, a wolf itself of the desert plains keeps despoiling them,16 a leopard is keeping awake at their cities.17 Everyone going forth from them gets torn to pieces. For their transgressions have become many; their acts of unfaithfulness have become numerous.18
  7. ¶ How can I forgive you[b] for this very thing? Your own sons have left me, and they keep swearing19 by what is no God.[c]20 And I kept satisfying them,21 but they continued committing adultery,22 and to the house of a prostitute woman they go in troops.
  8. Horses seized with sexual heat, having [strong] testicles, they have become. They neigh each one to the wife of his companion.23
  9. ¶ “Should I not take an accounting because of these very things?” is the utterance of Jehovah.24 “Or upon a nation that is like this should not my soul avenge itself?”25
  10. ¶ “Come up against her [vine] rows[d] and cause ruin,26 but do not YOU men make an actual extermination.27 Take away her luxuriating shoots, for they do not belong to Jehovah.28
  11. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have positively dealt treacherously with me,” is the utterance of Jehovah.29
  12. “They have denied Jehovah, and they keep saying, ‘He is not.30 And upon us no calamity will come, and no sword or famine shall we see.’31
  13. And the prophets themselves become a wind, and the word is not in them.32 That is how it will be done to them.”
  14. ¶ Therefore this is what Jehovah, the God of armies, has said: “For the reason that YOU men are saying this thing, here I am making my words in your mouth a fire,33 and this people will be pieces of wood, and it will certainly devour them.”34
  15. ¶ “Here I am bringing in upon YOU men a nation from far away,35 O house of Israel,” is the utterance of Jehovah. “It is an enduring nation.36 It is a nation of long ago, a nation whose language[e] you do not know, and you cannot hear [understandingly] what they speak.
  16. Their quiver is like an open burial place; all of them are mighty men.37
  17. They will also certainly eat up your harvest and your bread.38 The men will eat up your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vine and your fig tree.39 They will shatter with the sword your fortified cities in which you are trusting.”
  18. ¶ “And even in those days,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “I shall not carry out an extermination of YOU men.40
  19. And it must occur that YOU will say, ‘Due to what fact has Jehovah our God done to us all these things?’41 And you must say to them, ‘Just as YOU have left me and have gone serving a foreign god[f] in YOUR land, so YOU will serve strangers in a land that is not YOURS.’”42
  20. ¶ TELL this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying:
  21. “Hear, now, this, O unwise people that is without heart:[g]43 They have eyes, but they cannot see;44 they have ears, but they cannot hear.45
  22. ‘Do YOU not fear even me,’46 is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘or are YOU in no severe pains even because of me,47 who have set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an indefinitely lasting regulation that it cannot pass over? Although its waves toss themselves, still they cannot prevail; and [although] they do become boisterous, still they cannot pass over it.48
  23. But this very people has come to have a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and keep walking in their course.49
  24. But they have not said in their heart: “Let us, now, fear Jehovah our God,50 the One who is giving the downpour and the autumn rain and the spring rain in its season,51 the One who guards even the prescribed weeks of the harvest for us.”52
  25. YOUR own errors have turned these things away, and YOUR own sins have held back what is good from YOU people.53
  26. ¶ “‘For among my people there have been found wicked men.54 They keep peering, as when birdcatchers crouch down.55 They have set a ruinous [trap].[h] It is men[i] that they catch.
  27. As a cage is full of flying creatures, so their houses are full of deception.56 That is why they have become great and they gain riches.57
  28. They have grown fat;58 they have become shiny. They have also overflowed with bad things.[j] No legal case have they pleaded,59 even the legal case of the fatherless boy,60 that they may gain success;61 and the judgment of the poor ones they have not taken up.’”
  29. ¶ “Should I not hold an accounting because of these very things,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “or on a nation that is like this should not my soul avenge itself?62
  30. An astonishing situation, even a horrible thing, has been brought to be[k] in the land:63
  31. The prophets themselves actually prophesy in falsehood;64 and as for the priests, they go subduing according to their powers.[l]65 And my own people have loved [it] that way;66 and what will YOU men do in the finale of it?”67

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “Their God.” Heb., ʼElo·heh·hemʹ, pl.
  2. ^ “You,” fem. sing.
  3. ^ Or, “by what are no gods.” Heb., beloʼʹ ʼelo·himʹ.
  4. ^ “Her terrace walls,” by a slight change of vowel pointing.
  5. ^ Lit., “tongue.”
  6. ^ Or, “foreign gods.” Lit., “a god [or, gods] of a foreign (country).” Heb., ʼelo·hehʹ ne·kharʹ. The pl. form of “god” may denote excellence.
  7. ^ Or, “good motive.” Heb., lev.
  8. ^ “A ruinous [trap].” Or, “ruination,” that is, in the form of a trap or snare.
  9. ^ “Men.” Heb., ʼana·shimʹ.
  10. ^ Or, “words; matters.”
  11. ^ Compare De 27:9 ftn.
  12. ^ Lit., “hands.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Eze 22:30
  2. ^ Ge 18:32; Ps 12:1; 14:3; Eze 22:29; Am 5:7; Mc 7:2
  3. ^ Is 59:4
  4. ^ Is 48:1; Je 7:9
  5. ^ 2Ch 16:9; Ps 101:6
  6. ^ 2Ch 28:22
  7. ^ Is 1:5; 9:13; Je 2:30
  8. ^ De 28:21
  9. ^ Ps 50:17; Is 1:5; 42:25; Je 7:28; Zp 3:2
  10. ^ Pr 21:29; Zc 7:11
  11. ^ Eze 3:7
  12. ^ Is 27:11; Je 7:8; Ho 4:6
  13. ^ Ml 2:7
  14. ^ Mc 3:1
  15. ^ Ps 2:3
  16. ^ Ps 104:20; Zp 3:3
  17. ^ Ho 13:7
  18. ^ Ezr 9:6; Is 59:12; Eze 23:19
  19. ^ Jos 23:7; Je 12:16; Am 8:14; Zp 1:5
  20. ^ De 32:21; Je 2:11; 1Co 8:4; Ga 4:8
  21. ^ Eze 16:49; Ho 13:6
  22. ^ Eze 22:11
  23. ^ Je 13:27
  24. ^ Je 9:9
  25. ^ Le 26:25; Je 44:22; Na 1:2
  26. ^ 2Ch 36:17; Je 39:8
  27. ^ Le 26:44; Je 46:28; Am 9:8
  28. ^ Ps 78:61
  29. ^ Is 48:8; Je 3:20; Ho 5:7; 6:7
  30. ^ 2Ch 36:16; Is 28:15
  31. ^ Ps 10:6; Je 4:10; 23:17
  32. ^ Is 41:29; Ho 9:7
  33. ^ Je 1:9
  34. ^ Je 23:29; Ho 6:5; Re 11:5
  35. ^ De 28:49; Je 1:15; 4:16; 25:9; Eze 7:24
  36. ^ Hab 1:6
  37. ^ De 28:50
  38. ^ Le 26:16; De 28:51
  39. ^ Je 8:13
  40. ^ Je 4:27
  41. ^ De 29:25; 1Ki 9:9; Je 2:35; 13:22; 16:10
  42. ^ De 4:27; 28:48; 2Ch 7:22
  43. ^ De 29:4; Je 4:22
  44. ^ Is 59:10
  45. ^ Is 6:9; Eze 12:2; Ho 7:11; Mt 13:13; Mr 8:18; Ac 28:26
  46. ^ De 28:58; Ps 119:120; Re 15:4
  47. ^ Ps 99:1
  48. ^ Jb 26:10; 38:11; Ps 33:7; 104:9; Pr 8:29
  49. ^ Ps 78:8; 81:12; 95:10; Is 1:23; 65:2; Je 3:17; 11:8; 18:12; Ho 11:7; Ac 7:51
  50. ^ Ps 33:18
  51. ^ De 11:14; Ps 147:8; Jl 2:23; Jm 5:7
  52. ^ Ge 8:22
  53. ^ De 28:23; Ps 107:17; Je 3:3
  54. ^ Eze 22:6
  55. ^ Ps 10:9; Pr 1:17; Hab 1:15
  56. ^ Ho 12:7; Am 8:5; Mc 6:11
  57. ^ Je 17:11
  58. ^ De 32:15; Jm 5:5
  59. ^ Ps 82:2
  60. ^ Is 1:23; Zc 7:10
  61. ^ Jb 12:6; Ps 73:12; Je 12:1
  62. ^ Je 9:9
  63. ^ Je 2:12; 23:14; Ho 6:10
  64. ^ Je 14:14; La 2:14; Eze 13:6
  65. ^ Je 32:32; Mt 27:20
  66. ^ Is 30:10; Jn 3:19; 2Th 2:12; 2Ti 4:3
  67. ^ De 28:29; Is 10:3

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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