The Search for a Righteous Man

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"Roam the streets of Yerushalayim look around, observe and ask in its open spaces: if you can find anyone (if there is anyone!) who acts with justice and seeks the truth, I will pardon her.

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And though they say, 'As ADONAI lives,' the fact is that they are swearing falsely."

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ADONAI, your eyes look for truth. You struck them, but they weren't affected; you [nearly] destroyed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than rock, refusing to repent.

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My reaction was, "These must be the poor, the foolish, not knowing the way of ADONAI or the rulings of their God.

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I will go to the prominent men, and I will speak to them; for they know the way of ADONAI and the rulings of their God." But these had completely broken the yoke and torn the harness off.

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This is why a forest lion kills them, why a desert wolf can plunder them, why a leopard guards their cities - all who leave are torn to pieces - because their crimes are many, their backslidings keep increasing.

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"Why should I forgive you? Your people have abandoned me and sworn by non-gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery, thronging to the brothels.

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They have become like well-fed horses, lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

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Should I not punish for this?" asks ADONAI. "Should I not be avenged on a nation like this?"

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