Jeremiah 5:1-8

Not One Is Upright

1 “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.
2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ still they are swearing falsely.”
3 LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
4 I thought, “These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.
5 So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.” But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.
6 Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many.
7 “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.
8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man’s wife.

Cross References 25

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 16:9; Ezekiel 22:30
  • 2. Psalms 45:10
  • 3. Genesis 18:32; S Jeremiah 2:29
  • 4. ver 31; Jeremiah 14:14; Ezekiel 13:6
  • 5. S Genesis 18:24
  • 6. S Jeremiah 4:2
  • 7. S Leviticus 19:12
  • 8. 2 Chronicles 16:9
  • 9. S Isaiah 9:13
  • 10. S Leviticus 26:23; Jeremiah 2:30; Zephaniah 3:2
  • 11. Jeremiah 7:26; Jeremiah 19:15; Ezekiel 3:8-9; Ezekiel 36:26; Zechariah 7:12
  • 12. S 2 Chronicles 28:22; S Isaiah 1:5; Ezekiel 2:4-5; Amos 4:6; Zechariah 7:11
  • 13. S ver 21; S Jeremiah 4:22
  • 14. S Proverbs 10:21; S Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7
  • 15. Micah 3:1,9
  • 16. Psalms 2:3; S Jeremiah 2:20
  • 17. S Psalms 17:12
  • 18. S Leviticus 26:22
  • 19. Hosea 13:7
  • 20. Jeremiah 14:7; Jeremiah 30:14
  • 21. S Joshua 23:7; Zephaniah 1:5
  • 22. Deuteronomy 32:21; Jeremiah 2:11; Jeremiah 16:20; Galatians 4:8
  • 23. S Numbers 25:1
  • 24. Jeremiah 13:27
  • 25. Jeremiah 29:23; Ezekiel 22:11; Ezekiel 33:26
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