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 British with Deuterocanon
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 amongst 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 →