Jeremiah 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
King James Version
In Context
2And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
1 Kings 19:10And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Psalms 12:1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms 14:3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms 94:16Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Proverbs 8:3She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
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 →