Jeremiah 5:1
“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
Cross References
Genesis 18:23Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
1 Kings 19:10“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”
Psalms 12:1Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
Psalms 14:3All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Psalms 94:16Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?
Proverbs 8:3Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:
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 →