Jeremiah 3:5

Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.

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In The King James Version

Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

In Context

4Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

6And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:10Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

Psalms 85:5\85:4\Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.

Psalms 103:8The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

Jeremiah 8:5Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

Ezekiel 22:6See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:2-6

The Wickedness of Israel. ( b. c. 620.) 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord . 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy… Read the whole commentary →

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