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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there is any that does justly, that seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and don't see; that have ears, and don't hear:

Thus says Yahweh, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].

But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

But, O Yahweh of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

But you, O Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

Then I said, Ah, Lord Yahweh! look, the prophets say to them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will see them with the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

But, O Yahweh of hosts, that try the righteous, that see the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Don't weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep intensely for him that goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

But in the place where they have led him captive, there he shall die, and he shall see this land no more.

Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

Then Yahweh said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.

therefore thus says Yahweh, Look, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.

Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child: why do I see every [able-bodied] man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces have turned pale?