17They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.
Jeremiah 5 continues the Lord’s indictment against Judah through the prophet Jeremiah, intensifying the case for judgment. God challenges Jeremiah to find even one person in Jerusalem who acts justly and seeks truth—if he can, God will relent. The search fails, revealing a city a
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