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## Jeremiah 5:2-6 in Context (Verses 1–9 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/1) Run 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.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/2) And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/3) 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.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/4) 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.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/5) 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.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/6) 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.**
 
 [7 ](/kjv/jeremiah/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.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/8) They were *as* fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/9) Shall I not visit for these *things*? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
 
[Jeremiah 4](/kjv/jeremiah/4) [Jeremiah 6](/kjv/jeremiah/6)

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