Jeremiah 3:5
Doth He keep to the age? watch for ever?' Lo, these things thou hast spoken, And thou dost the evil things, and prevailest.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, 'My father, Thou [art] the leader of my youth?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 29:10'Now — with my heart — to make a covenant before Jehovah, God of Israel, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from us.
Psalms 85:5To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?
Psalms 103:8Merciful and gracious [is] Jehovah, Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.
Isaiah 64:9Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people [are] we all.
Jeremiah 8:5Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back — a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.
Ezekiel 22:6Lo, princes of Israel — each according to his arm Have been in thee 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 →