Jeremiah 5:1
“Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, || And see now and know, || And seek in her broad places, || If you find a man, || If there is one doing judgment, || Seeking steadfastness—Then I am propitious to her.
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2And if they say, YHWH lives, || Surely they swear to a falsehood.”
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham draws near and says, “Do You also consume righteous with wicked?
1 Kings 19:10And he says, “I have been very zealous for YHWH, God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant—they have thrown down Your altars, and they have slain Your prophets by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life—to take it.”
Psalms 12:1TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE EIGHTH. A PSALM OF DAVID. Save, YHWH, for the saintly has failed, || For the steadfast have ceased || From the sons of men:
Psalms 14:3The whole have turned aside, || Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.
Psalms 94:16Who rises up for me with evildoers? Who stations himself for me with workers of iniquity?
Proverbs 8:3At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, || The entrance of the openings, she cries aloud,
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 →