Jeremiah 5:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

Psalm 12:1

For the chief music-maker on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David. Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.

Psalm 14:2

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Psalm 14:3

They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

Psalm 94:16

Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

Proverbs 20:6

Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?

Proverbs 23:23

Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

Proverbs 8:3

Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

Song of Solomon 3:2

I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

Isaiah 59:4

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

Jeremiah 2:29

Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:15

Then all the men who had knowledge that their wives were burning perfumes to other gods, and all the women who were present, a great meeting, answering Jeremiah, said,

Jeremiah 8:6

I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

Jeremiah 9:7

So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.

Ezekiel 22:30

And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

Daniel 12:4

But as for you, O Daniel, let the words be kept secret and the book rolled up and kept shut till the time of the end: numbers will be going out of the way and troubles will be increased.

Joel 2:9

They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

Amos 8:12

And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.

Zechariah 2:4

Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.

Luke 14:21

And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.