Jeremiah 5:1
Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
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In Context
2And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?
1 Kings 19:10And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.
Psalms 12:1For the chief music-maker on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.
Psalms 14:3They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.
Psalms 94:16Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?
Proverbs 8:3Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:
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 →