1Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if ye can find a man, if there is [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3O LORD, [are] not thy eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4Therefore I saide, Surely they are poore, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God. 5I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds. 6Wherefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, [and] a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased. 7How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, then they committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 8They rose vp in the morning like fed horses: for euery man neyed after his neighbours wife. 9Shall I not visite for these things, saith the Lorde? Shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this? 10Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD'S. 11For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue grieuously trespassed against me, saith the Lord. 12They have lied about the LORD, and said, [It is] not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 13And the prophets shall become wind, and the word [is] not in them: thus shall it be done to them. 14Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. 15Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it [is] a mighty nation, it [is] an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. 16Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men. 17And they shall eate thine haruest and thy bread: they shall deuoure thy sonnes and thy daughters: they shall eate vp thy sheepe and thy bullocks: they shall eate thy vines and thy figge trees: they shall destroy with the sworde thy fensed cities, wherein thou didest trust. 18Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you. 19And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why doeth the LORD our God all these [things] to us? then shalt thou answer them, As ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours. 20Declare this in the house of Iaakob, and publish it in Iudah, saying, 21Heare nowe this, O foolish people, and without vnderstanding, which haue eyes and see not, which haue eares and heare not. 22Feare ye not me, saith the Lord? Or will ye not be afraide at my presence, which haue placed the sand for the bounds of the sea by the perpetuall decree that it cannot passe it, and though the waues thereof rage, yet can they not preuaile, though they roare, yet can they not passe ouer it? 23But this people hath an vnfaithfull and rebellious heart: they are departed and gone. 24For they say not in their heart, Let vs nowe feare the Lorde our God, that giueth raine both early and late in due season: hee reserueth vnto vs the appointed weekes of the haruest. 25Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withheld good [things] from you. 26For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men. 27As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche. 28They have become fat, they shine: yea, they exceed the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. 29Shall I not visite for these things, sayth the Lord? or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this? 30An horrible and filthie thing is committed in the land. 31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will ye do in its end?