Graphic Bible · Scene 2 of 7
Jeremiah 5:6-9
Predators at the gate
The Search for Justice · Jeremiah 5
Story guide: A lion, wolf, and leopard appear at the edge of a vulnerable Judean town in a restrained prophetic vision.
Open this scene in the reader →6Therefore a lion from the forest strikes them down; a desert wolf ravages them. A leopard lies in wait outside their cities; everyone who leaves them will be torn apart, because their transgressions are many and their apostasy has grown worse.
7How can I forgive you for this? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by those that are not gods. I fed them to the full, yet they committed adultery and crowded into a prostitute’s house.
8They were well-fed, lusty stallions; each one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9“Shall I not punish them for these things?” declares Yahweh. “Shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?”
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