World English Bible
Jeremiah 5:9
“Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says Yahweh; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 5
7
How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
8
They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
9
Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says Yahweh; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10
Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
11
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me," says Yahweh.
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