Jeremiah 5:1 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ “Diligently search the streets of Yerushalayim, and please look, and know and seek in her open places if you find a man, if there is anyone doing right-ruling, seeking the truth, then I shall pardon her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ RUN TO and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now and take notice! Seek in her broad squares to see if you can find a man [as Abraham sought in Sodom], one who does justice, who seeks truth, sincerity, and faithfulness; and I will pardon [Jerusalem–for one uncompromisingly righteous person]. [Gen. 18:22-32.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.

Common English Bible

¹ Search every street in Jerusalem, comb the squares, look far and wide for one person, even one who acts justly and seeks truth that I may pardon her!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ "Travel the streets of Jerusalem; and gaze, and consider, and seek, in its wide streets. If you can find a man exercising judgment and seeking faith, then I will be forgiving to them.

Jeremiah 5:1 Cross References

Ezekiel 22:30

“And I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the breach before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it – but I did not find one!

2 Chronicles 16:9

“For the eyes of יהוה diligently search throughout all the earth, to show Himself to be strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect to Him. You have acted foolishly in this, so from now on you shall have battles.”

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for righteousness, and no one pleads for truth. They trust in emptiness and speak worthlessness; they conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness.

Psalm 14:3

They have all turned aside, They have together become filthy; No one is doing good, not even one.

Proverbs 20:6

Most men proclaim each his own loving-commitment, But who finds a trustworthy man?

Psalm 12:1

Save, יהוה, for the lovingly-committed one is no more! For the trustworthy have ceased from among the sons of men.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, in order for them to be saved.

Luke 14:21

And that servant came and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house, being wroth, said to his servant, ‘Hurry out into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and crippled, and lame, and blind.’ ”

Zechariah 2:4

and he said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Yerushalayim is to remain unwalled, because of the many men and livestock in it.

Amos 8:12

“And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east – they shall diligently search, seeking the Word of יהוה, but they shall not find it.

Joel 2:9

They rush on the city, they run on the wall. They climb into the houses, they enter at the windows like a thief.

Daniel 12:4

“But you, Dani’ĕl, hide the words, and seal the book until the time of the end. Many shall diligently search and knowledge shall increase.”

Song of Solomon 3:2

“Come, let me arise, and go about the city, In the streets and in the broad places I seek the beloved of my being.” I sought him, but I did not find him.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth and do not sell it – Wisdom and discipline and understanding.

Proverbs 8:3

Beside the gates, leading to the city, At the entrances, she shouts:

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, “I have been very jealous for יהוה Elohim of hosts, for the children of Yisra’ĕl have forsaken Your covenant. They have thrown down Your slaughter-places, and they have killed Your prophets with the sword, and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it.”

Jeremiah 2:29

“Why do you complain to Me? You all have transgressed against Me,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 44:15

Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other mighty ones, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Mitsrayim, in Pathros, answered Yirmeyahu, saying,

Psalm 14:2

יהוה looked down from the heavens on the sons of mankind, To see if there is a wise one, seeking יהוה.

Psalm 94:16

Who would rise up for me against evil-doers? Who would stand up for me against workers of wickedness?

Jeremiah 8:6

“I have listened and heard – they do not speak right. No man has repented of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ They all turned to their own course, like a horse rushing into battle.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men, and I would leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus said יהוה of hosts, “See, I shall refine them, and shall try them, for what shall I do because of the daughter of My people?

Ezekiel 9:9

And He said to me, “The crookedness of the house of Yisra’ĕl and Yehuḏah is exceedingly great, and the land is filled with bloodshed, and the city filled with that which is warped. For they say, ‘יהוה has forsaken the land, and יהוה is not seeing!’