King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 5:9
“Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 5
7
How 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, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
8
They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
9
Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they [are] not the LORD'S.
11
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
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