Jeremiah 3:5

Will he keep [his anger] for ever? Will he preserve it perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and thou art [so] determined.

Darby Translation

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

4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

6And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

Psalms 85:5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger from generation to generation?

Psalms 103:8Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.

Isaiah 64:9Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

Jeremiah 8:5Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Ezekiel 22:6Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.

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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