Jeremiah 5:1
Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness — Then am I propitious to her.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2And if they say, 'Jehovah liveth,' Surely to a falsehood they swear.
Cross References
Genesis 18:23And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, 'Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?
1 Kings 19:10And he saith, 'I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant — Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life — to take it.'
Psalms 12:1To the Overseer, on the octave. — A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men:
Psalms 14:3The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.
Psalms 94:16Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?
Proverbs 8:3At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud,
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:1
Reproof for sin and threatenings of judgment are intermixed in this chapter, and are set the one over against the other: judgments are threatened, that the reproofs of sin might be the more effectual to bring them to repentance; sin is discovered, that God might be justified in the judgments threatened. I. The sins they are charged with are very great:—Injustice ( ver. 1 ), hypocrisy in religion ( ver. 2 ), incorrigibleness ( ver. 3 ), the corruption and debauchery of both poor and rich ( ver. 7, 8 ), treacherous… Read the whole commentary →