Berean Standard Bible
Jeremiah 5:1-15
1“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.2Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth?You struck them, but they felt no pain.You finished them off,but they refused to accept discipline.They have made their faces harder than stoneand refused to repent.
4Then I said, “They are only the poor;they have played the fool,for they do not know the way of the LORD,the justice of their God.5I will go to the powerfuland speak to them.Surely they know the way of the LORD,the justice of their God.”
But they too, with one accord, had broken the yokeand torn off the chains.6Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down,a wolf from the desert will ravage them.A leopard will lie in wait near their cities,and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces.For their rebellious acts are many,and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
7“Why should I forgive you?Your children have forsaken Meand sworn by gods that are not gods.I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adulteryand assembled at the houses of prostitutes.8They are well-fed, lusty stallions,each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.9Should I not punish them for these things?”declares the LORD.“Should I not avenge Myselfon such a nation as this?10Go up through her vineyards and ravage them,but do not finish them off.Strip off her branches,for they do not belong to the LORD.11For the house of Israel and the house of Judahhave been utterly unfaithful to Me,”declares the LORD.
12They have lied about the LORD and said:
“He will not do anything; harm will not come to us;we will not see sword or famine.13The prophets are but wind,for the word is not in them.So let their own predictions befall them.1”
14Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says:
“Because you have spoken this word,I will make My words a fire in your mouthand this people the wood it consumes.15Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you,O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.“It is an established nation,an ancient nation,a nation whose language you do not knowand whose speech you do not understand.
Notes
- 1. Jeremiah 5:13 Literally let this befall them. ↩
Commentaries on Jeremiah 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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