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Jeremiah 5:1

Run you⌃ about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if you⌃ can find one, if there is any one that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, says the Lord.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?

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Cross References

Genesis 18:23And Abraam drew near and said, Wouldest you destroy the righteous with the wicked, and shall the righteous be as the wicked?

1 Kings 19:10And Eliu said, + 19:10 Rom 11:3 I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken you: they have digged down your altars, and have slain your prophets with the sword; and I only am left alone, and they seek my life to take it.

Psalms 12:1How long, O Lord, will you forget me? for ever? how long will you turn away your face from me? 1

Psalms 14:3Who has not spoken craftily with his tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbor, nor taken up a reproach against them that lived nearest to him. 1

Proverbs 8:3For she sits by the gates of princes, and sings in the entrances, saying,

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 →

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