Jeremiah 5:3
YHWH, Your eyes, are they not on steadfastness? You have struck them, and they have not grieved, || You have consumed them, || They have refused to receive instruction, || They made their faces harder than a rock, || They have refused to turn back.
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2And if they say, YHWH lives, || Surely they swear to a falsehood.”
Cross References
Leviticus 26:23And if by these you are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me [in] opposition,
2 Chronicles 16:9for YHWH—His eyes go to and fro in all the earth, to show Himself strong [for] a people whose heart [is] perfect toward Him; you have been foolish concerning this, because from now on there are wars with you.”
Psalms 11:4YHWH [is] in His holy temple: YHWH—His throne [is] in the heavens. His eyes see—His eyelids try the sons of men.
Psalms 51:8You cause me to hear joy and gladness, || You make bones You have bruised joyful.
Proverbs 21:29A wicked man has hardened by his face, || And the upright—he prepares his way.
Proverbs 23:35“They struck me, I have not been sick, || They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:2-10
The Universal Corruption to the Age. ( b. c. 608.) 1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2 And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O Lord , are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have… Read the whole commentary →