Jeremiah 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places if it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
2And though they say, As LORD lives, surely they swear falsely.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham drew near, and said, Will thou consume righteous men with wicked men?
1 Kings 19:10And he said, I have been very jealous for LORD, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left, and they seek my lif
Psalms 12:1Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.
Psalms 14:3They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one.
Psalms 94:16Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Proverbs 8:3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she cries aloud:
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:1
Reproof for sin and threatenings of judgment are intermixed in this chapter, and are set the one over against the other: judgments are threatened, that the reproofs of sin might be the more effectual to bring them to repentance; sin is discovered, that God might be justified in the judgments threatened. I. The sins they are charged with are very great:—Injustice ( ver. 1 ), hypocrisy in religion ( ver. 2 ), incorrigibleness ( ver. 3 ), the corruption and debauchery of both poor and rich ( ver. 7, 8 ), treacherous… Read the whole commentary →