Jeremiah 5:29
Shall I not visite for these things, sayth the Lord? or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
30An horrible and filthie thing is committed in the land.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:9Shall I not visite for these things, saith the Lord? Shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:9Shal I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soule be auenged on such a nation as this?
James 5:4Behold, the hire of ye labourers, which haue reaped your fieldes (which is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth, and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of hostes.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:26-31
Expostulation with Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet… Read the whole commentary →