The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: have withholden good things from you.
JER 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he
that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
JER 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of
deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
JER 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds
of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
JER 5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not
my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
JER 5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
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