Jeremiah 5:26-31

Social Injustice and Corrupt Leadership

Jeremiah 5:26-31
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"For among my people there are wicked men, who, like fowlers, lie in wait and set traps to catch their fellow human beings.
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Their houses are as full of fraud as a cage full of birds. They grow rich and great,
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sleek and bloated; they excel in acts of wickedness but do not plead on behalf of the orphan, thus enabling his cause to succeed; nor do they judge in favor of the poor.
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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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A shocking and horrifying thing has happened in the land:
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The prophets prophesy lies, the cohanim obey the prophets, and my people love it that way. But what will you do at the end of it all?
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