Jeremiah 5:1
Run to and from by the streetes of Ierusalem, and beholde nowe, and knowe, and inquire in the open places thereof, if ye can finde a man, or if there be any that executeth iudgement, and seeketh the trueth, and I will spare it.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
2For though they say, The Lord liueth, yet doe they sweare falsely.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23Then Abraham drewe neere, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
1 Kings 19:10And he answered, I haue bene very ielous for the Lord God of hostes: for the children of Israel haue forsaken thy couenant, broken downe thine altars, and slayne thy Prophets with the sword, and I onely am left, and they seeke my life to take it away.
Psalms 12:1To him that excelleth upon the eight tune. A Psalme of Dauid. Helpe Lord, for there is not a godly man left: for the faithfull are fayled from among the children of men.
Psalms 14:3All are gone out of the way: they are all corrupt: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
Psalms 94:16Who will rise vp with me against the wicked? or who will take my part against the workers of iniquitie?
Proverbs 8:3She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,
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 →