Jeremiah 5:29
Shall I not visit for these things? says LORD. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
A Conservative Version
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In Context
30An astonishing and horrible thing has come to pass in the land.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:9Shall I not visit for these things? says LORD. And shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:9Shall I not visit them for these things? says LORD. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
James 5:4Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:26-31
Expostulation with Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 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… Read the whole commentary →