Jeremiah 3:5

Will He bear grudge for ever? Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

4Didst thou not just now cry unto Me: 'My father, Thou art the friend of my youth.

6And the LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king: 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel did? she went up upon every high mountain and under every leafy tree, and there played the harlot.

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Cross References

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

Psalms 85:5(85-6) Wilt Thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt Thou draw out Thine anger to all generations?

Psalms 103:8The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Isaiah 64:9(64-8) Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever; behold, look, we beseech Thee, we are all Thy people.

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

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

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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