Jeremiah 5:29
shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
30A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land;
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:9shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
James 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
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 →