Jeremiah 5:1
Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and notice, and search in its broad places, if ye can find one man, if there be one that executeth justice, that searcheth for truth: and I will pardon it.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2And though they say, “As the Lord liveth!” surely they only swear to a falsehood.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou then destroy the righteous also with the wicked?
1 Kings 19:10And he said, I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thy altars have they thrown down, and thy prophets have they slain with the sword: and I am left by myself alone, and they have sought my life, to take it away.
Psalms 12:1“To the chief musician upon Sheminith, a psalm of David.” (12:2) Help, O Lord; for the pious have ceased to be; for the truthful have failed from among the children of men.
Psalms 14:3They are all gone aside, they are altogether become corrupt: there is none that doth good, no, not even one.
Psalms 94:16Who will rise up for me against evil-doers? or who will stand forward for me against the workers of wickedness?
Proverbs 8:3Alongside of gates, at the opening of the city, at the entrance of the town[-doors] doth she call loudly,
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 →