💧WEB · Jeremiah 5:9
What does Jeremiah 5:9 mean?
"Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
— Jeremiah 5:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them, a wolf of the evenings will destroy them, a leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding has increased.
“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
“Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not Yahweh’s.
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.
They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.
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