Jeremiah 5:24-26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
24 And do not say in their hearts,
“Let us fear the Lord, our God,
Who gives us rain
early and late,[a] in its time;
Who watches for us
over the appointed weeks of harvest.”(A)
25 Your crimes have prevented these things,
your sins have turned these blessings away from you.(B)
26 For criminals lurk among my people;
like fowlers they set traps,
but it is human beings they catch.(C)
Footnotes
- 5:24 Rain early and late: autumn and spring rains respectively. Appointed weeks of harvest: the seven weeks between the Passover (Dt 16:9–10) and the feast of Weeks (Pentecost), when it did not ordinarily rain.
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