Jeremiah 5:1
“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
2Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
Cross References
Genesis 18:23Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
1 Kings 19:10He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Psalms 12:1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms 14:3They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Psalms 94:16Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Proverbs 8:3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, 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 →