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“Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem,
    and look please, and take note,
and search at its public squares,
    if you can find a person who does justice,
who seeks honesty,
    so that I may forgive it.
And though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’[a]
    therefore[b] they swear falsely.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:2 Literally “Life of Yahweh”
  2. Jeremiah 5:2 Literally “to thus”

The Sins of Judah

“Run up and down every street in Jerusalem,” says the Lord.
    “Look high and low; search throughout the city!
If you can find even one just and honest person,
    I will not destroy the city.
But even when they are under oath,
    saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’
    they are still telling lies!”

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