TSK · Jeremiah 9:2

That entire generation passed away; a new generation grew up that had not personally experienced the LORD’s presence or seen what he had done for Israel.

Look, I will escape to a distant place; I will stay in the wilderness.(Selah)

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

Judah is Justly Deserving of Coming Judgment The LORD said,“Go up and down through the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares. See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful. If you can, then I will not punish this city.

The LORD asked,“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.

As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

They have committed treason against the LORD, because they bore illegitimate children. Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields.

They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.

Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests have defiled what is holy; they have broken God’s laws.

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.