Jeremiah 5:26-31

Social Injustice and Corrupt Leadership

Jeremiah 5:26-31
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For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.
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As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche.
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They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.
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Shall I not visite for these things, sayth the Lord? or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?
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An horrible and filthie thing is committed in the land.
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The Prophets prophesie lies, and ye Priests receiue giftes in their handes, and my people delite therein. What will ye then doe in the ende thereof?
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