Jeremiah 5:29
"Shall I not punish for these things?" says the Lord. "Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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30"An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:9Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says the Lord; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:9Shall I not visit them for these things?" says the Lord; "shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
James 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
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 →