Jeremiah 3:5

Does He keep for all time? Watch forever? Behold, you have spoken these things, || And you do evil, and prevail.”

Literal Standard Version

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

4Have you not from now on called to Me, || My Father, You [are] the leader of my youth?

6And YHWH says to me, in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She is going on every high mountain, and to the place of every green tree, and commits fornication there.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:10Now [it is] with my heart to make a covenant before YHWH, God of Israel, and the fierceness of His anger turns back from us.

Psalms 85:5Are You angry against us for all time? Do You draw out Your anger || To generation and generation?

Psalms 103:8YHWH [is] merciful and gracious, || Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Isaiah 64:9Do not be angry, O YHWH, very severely, || Nor remember iniquity forever, || Behold, look attentively, we implore You, || We [are] all Your people.

Jeremiah 8:5Why has this people of Jerusalem || Turned back—a continuous backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, || They have refused to turn back.

Ezekiel 22:6Behold, princes of Israel—each according to his arm || Have been in you 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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