Jeremiah 5:1-10

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.
9 Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?
10 “Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the LORD.

Cross References 28

  • 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
  • 26. ver 29; Jeremiah 9:9
  • 27. S Isaiah 57:6
  • 28. S Jeremiah 4:27; Amos 9:8
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