Jeremiah 3:5
Will he bear grudge for ever? will he keep it to eternity? Behold, thou hast spoken [this], and yet hast done the things that are evil as much as thou wast able.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
4Wilt thou not from this time call out unto mem My father, the guide of my youth art thou?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 29:10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant for the Lord the God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
Psalms 85:5(85:6) Wilt thou be wroth with us for ever? wilt thou extend thy anger from generation to generation?
Psalms 103:8Merciful and gracious is the Lord, long-suffering and abundant in kindness.
Isaiah 64:9(64:8) Be not wroth, O Lord, so very greatly, and do not for ever remember [our] iniquity: behold, look, we beseech thee, thy people are we all.
Jeremiah 8:5Why then remaineth this people, Jerusalem, rebellious by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast on deceit, they refuse to return.
Ezekiel 22:6Behold, the princes of Israel were each [ready] with his arm within thee, in order 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 →