Jeremiah 3:5
Will God’s anger continue forever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done these bad things, and hadst power to do them.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
4Hast thou not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of thy virgin time?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 29:10Therefore it is now in my heart to make a covenant, a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that he may turn away his fierce wrath from us.
Psalms 85:5For thou, O Lord, art kind, and gentle; 1 And plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. 1
Psalms 103:8They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, 1 To the place which thou hast founded for them. 1
Isaiah 64:9The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.
Jeremiah 8:5Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?
Ezekiel 22:6Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in thee each one with his kindred, that they might 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 →