The Search for a Righteous Man

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“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

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Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”

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O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

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Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

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I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

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Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.

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“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

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They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

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Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

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