Jeremiah 5:1
“Rush about through the streets of Jerusalem; search in her city squares, too. Then look and think about this: 1 If you can find a man or anyone who is acting justly and trying to act faithfully, 1 then I will forgive Jerusalem. 1
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2Although they say, 'As Yahweh lives,' yet they are swearing falsely.” 1
Cross References
Genesis 18:23Then Abraham approached and said, “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
1 Kings 19:10Elijah replied, “I have been very zealous for Yahweh, God of hosts, for the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, destroyed your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. Now I, only I, am left and they are also trying to take my life.”
Psalms 12:1Help, Yahweh, for the godly have disappeared; 1 the faithful have vanished. 1
Psalms 14:3They have all turned away. Together they have become corrupt. 1 There is no one who does good, no, not one. 1
Psalms 94:16Who will rise up to defend me against the evildoers? 1 Who will stand up for me against the wicked? 1
Proverbs 8:3Before the gates at the entrance into the city, 1 at the entrances into the city, she calls out. 1
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 →