Jeremiah 5:29

Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? Or shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation of this kind?

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In The King James Version

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

In Context

28They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.

30Astonishing and wondrous things have been done upon the earth.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 5:9Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? And shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation such as this?

Jeremiah 9:9Shall I not visit upon them concerning these things, says the Lord? Or shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation of this kind?

James 5:4Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the 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 →

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