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|Jeremías 5:1|
Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
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2
|Jeremías 5:2|
And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
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3
|Jeremías 5:3|
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
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4
|Jeremías 5:4|
Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
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5
|Jeremías 5:5|
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
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6
|Jeremías 5:6|
And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
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7
|Jeremías 5:7|
How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.
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8
|Jeremías 5:8|
They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
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9
|Jeremías 5:9|
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
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10
|Jeremías 5:10|
Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
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Sugerencias
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