Jeremiah 3:5

You won't be angry with me for a long time, will you? You won't go on being like that forever?” This is what you've said, but you keep on sinning as much as you can.

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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

4Didn't you just tell me, “My father, you've been such a close friend to me since I was little.

6During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord told me, Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has prostituted herself on every high hill and under every green tree.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:10But now I'm going to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will no longer fall on us.

Psalms 85:5Are you going to be furious with us forever? Will you stay angry with us for all future generations?

Psalms 103:8The Lord is kind and gracious, not quick-tempered, and full of trustworthy love.

Isaiah 64:9Please limit your anger, Lord, and don't remember our sins forever. Look at us, and see that we are all your people.

Jeremiah 8:5So why have these people of Jerusalem gone the wrong way? Why do they refuse to turn around from their repeated betrayals, holding on to all their lies?

Ezekiel 22:6Look at how all of your leaders in Israel use their power to murder.

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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