Jeremiah 3:5
Will he maintain his anger to times age-abiding? Will he keep it perpetually? Lo! thou hast spoken thus but hast done wicked things and had thy way!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4Hast thou not from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 29:10Now, is it near my heart, to solemnise a covenant unto Yahweh, God of Israel,—that he may turn from him the glow of his anger.
Psalms 85:5To times age-abiding, wilt thou be angry with us? Wilt thou prolong thine anger, from generation to generation?
Psalms 103:8Compassionate and gracious, is Yahweh,—Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness.
Isaiah 64:9Do not be indignant, O Yahweh so very greatly, Neither perpetually, do thou recall iniquity,—Lo! look around, we pray thee…thy people, are, we all.
Jeremiah 8:5Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem apostatized with an enduring apostacy,—Taken fast hold of deceit, Refused to come back?
Ezekiel 22:6Lo! the princes of Israel, every man for his own arm, have they been in thee, For the sake of shedding blood.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:2-6
The Wickedness of Israel. ( b. c. 620.) 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord . 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy… Read the whole commentary →