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Jeremiah 5

Jer. 5:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They are waxen fat
shaman (Hebrew #8080)
to shine, i.e. (by analogy) be (causatively, make) oily or gross
KJV usage: become (make, wax) fat.
Pronounce: shaw-man'
Origin: a primitive root
i, they shine
`ashath (Hebrew #6245)
probably to be sleek, i.e. glossy; hence (through the idea of polishing) to excogitate (as if forming in the mind)
KJV usage: shine, think.
Pronounce: aw-shath'
Origin: a primitive root
: yea, they overpass
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
the deeds
dabar (Hebrew #1697)
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Pronounce: daw-baw'
Origin: from 1696
of the wicked
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
: they judge
diyn (Hebrew #1777)
a primitive roy a straight course, i.e. sail direct
KJV usage: (come) with a straight course.
Pronounce: deen
Origin: or (Gen. 6:3) duwn {doon}
notk the cause
duwn (Hebrew #1779)
judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by impl. also strife
KJV usage: cause, judgement, plea, strife.
Pronounce: doon
Origin: from 1777
, the cause of the fatherless
yathowm (Hebrew #3490)
a bereaved person
KJV usage: fatherless (child), orphan.
Pronounce: yaw-thome'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lonely
, yet they prosper
tsalach (Hebrew #6743)
a primitive root; to push forward, in various senses (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)
KJV usage: break out, come (mightily), go over, be good, be meet, be profitable, (cause to, effect, make to, send) prosper(-ity, -ous, - ously).
Pronounce: tsaw-lakh'
Origin: or tsaleach {tsaw-lay'-akh}
; and the right
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
of the needy
'ebyown (Hebrew #34)
destitute
KJV usage: beggar, needy, poor (man).
Pronounce: eb-yone'
Origin: from 14, in the sense of want (especially in feeling)
do they not judge
shaphat (Hebrew #8199)
to judge, i.e. pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: + avenge, X that condemn, contend, defend, execute (judgment), (be a) judge(-ment), X needs, plead, reason, rule.
Pronounce: shaw-fat'
Origin: a primitive root
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Deut. 32:15• 15Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked{HR}—Thou art waxen fat,{HR}Thou art grown thick,{HR}And thou art covered with fatness;{HR}—He gave up God who made him,{HR}And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.{HR} (Deut. 32:15)
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Jer. 22:15‑19• 15Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
 16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
 17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
 18Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
 19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. (Jer. 22:15‑19)

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waxen.
Deut. 32:15• 15Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked{HR}—Thou art waxen fat,{HR}Thou art grown thick,{HR}And thou art covered with fatness;{HR}—He gave up God who made him,{HR}And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.{HR} (Deut. 32:15)
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Job 15:27‑28• 27For he covereth his face with his fatness,{HR}And gathereth fat on [his] loins:
 28And he inhabiteth desolate cities,{HR}Houses that no man dwelleth in,{HR}Which are destined for heaps. (Job 15:27‑28)
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Job 21:23‑24• 23This [man] dieth in the fullness of his strength,{HR}Altogether at ease, and quiet;
 24His troughs are full of milk,{HR}And the marrow of his bones is soaked. (Job 21:23‑24)
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Psa. 73:6‑7,12• 6Therefore hath pride enchained them,{HR}A garment of violence covereth them.
 7Their eyes stand out with fatness,{HR}The imaginations of their heart overflow.
 12Behold, these [are] wicked and prosperous forever;{HR}They increase in substance. (Psa. 73:6‑7,12)
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Psa. 119:70• 70Fat as the grease [is] their heart:{HR}I delight myself in thy law. (Psa. 119:70)
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Amos 4:1• 1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. (Amos 4:1)
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James 5:4‑5• 4Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts.
 5Ye lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. (James 5:4‑5)
overpass.
Jer. 2:33• 33How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness. (Jer. 2:33)
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Ezek. 5:6‑7• 6And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
 7Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and you have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you. (Ezek. 5:6‑7)
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Ezek. 16:47‑52• 47Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
 48As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
 49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
 50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
 51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
 52Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. (Ezek. 16:47‑52)
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1 Cor. 5:1• 1Universal report is of fornication among you, and such fornication as [is] not even among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. (1 Cor. 5:1)
judge.
Jer. 22:15‑19• 15Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
 16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
 17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
 18Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
 19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. (Jer. 22:15‑19)
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Job 29:12‑14• 12For I delivered the poor that cried,{HR}And the fatherless that had no helper.
 13The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing.
 14Righteousness I put on, and it put me on,{HR}As a robe and a diadem mine equity. (Job 29:12‑14)
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Psa. 72:4• 4He will judge the afflicted of the people,{HR}He will save the sons of the needy,{HR}And will crush the oppressor. (Psa. 72:4)
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Psa. 82:2‑4• 2How long will ye judge unjustly{HR}And respect the person of the wicked? Selah.
 3Judge the poor (man) and fatherless;{HR}Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
 4Rescue the poor and the needy,{HR}Deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (Psa. 82:2‑4)
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Isa. 1:23• 23Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. (Isa. 1:23)
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Zech. 7:10• 10and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. (Zech. 7:10)
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Jer. 12:1• 1Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? (Jer. 12:1)
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Job 12:6• 6To the spoilers are the tents at peace,{HR}And those who provoke God have security —{HR}He who causeth God to enter into his hand. (Job 12:6)
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Psa. 73:12• 12Behold, these [are] wicked and prosperous forever;{HR}They increase in substance. (Psa. 73:12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prospera; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "that they might bring them through."

W. Kelly Translation

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They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)