Jeremiah 3:5

Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could.

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Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

In Context

4Will you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?

6The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:10Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

Psalms 85:5Will you be angry with us for ever? will you draw out yours anger to all generations?

Psalms 103:8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Isaiah 64:9Be not angry very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we plead to you, we are all your people.

Jeremiah 8:5Why then is this people of Jerusalem slides back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Ezekiel 22:6Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power to shed 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 →

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